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We demonstrate that the experimentally observed conductance oscillations through a gate-controlled quantum dot under quantized Hall conditions originate from a true Aharonov-Bohm phase that is acquired by the electrons as they co-propagate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-10 Afif Siddiki , Kaan Guven

The molecular states of conduction electrons in laterally coupled quantum rings are investigated theoretically. The states are shown to have a distinct magnetic field dependence, which gives rise to periodic fluctuations of the tunnel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-19 JI Climente , J Planelles

By applying an electric field perpendicular to a semiconductor quantum ring we show that it is possible to modify the single particle wave function between quantum dot (QD)-like to ring-like. The constraints on the geometrical parameters of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-17 Bin Li , F. M. Peeters

We present an analysis of the Aharonov-Bohm oscillations for a mesoscopic ring with a quantum dot inserted in one of its arms. It is shown that microreversibility demands that the phase of the Aharonov-Bohm oscillations changes {\it…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Levy Yeyati , M. Buttiker

We present a statistical readout method for quantum interferences based on time series analysis of consecutive single electron transfers through a double quantum dot Aharonov-Bohm interferometer. Waiting time distributions qualitatively…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sven Welack , Shaul Mukamel , YiJing Yan

One of the points at issue with closed-loop-type interferometers is beating in the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) oscillations. Recent observations suggest the possibility that the beating results from the Berry-phase pickup by the conducting electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-11 Sanghyun Jo , Gyong Luck Khym , Dong-In Chang , Yunchul Chung , Hu-Jong Lee , Kicheon Kang , Diana Mahalu , Vladimir Umansky

Inelastic effects arising from electron-phonon coupling in molecular Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometers are studied using the nonequilibrium Green's function method. Results for the magnetoconductance are compared for different values of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 Oded Hod , Roi Baer , Eran Rabani

An apparent h/fe Aharonov-Bohm flux period, where f is an integer, has been reported in coherent quantum Hall devices. Such sub-period is not expected for non-interacting electrons and thus is thought to result from interelectron Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-19 Ping V. Lin , F. E. Camino , V. J. Goldman

We present a microscopic picture of quantum transport in the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometer taking into account electron interaction within the Hartree and the spin density functional theory approximations. We discuss the structure of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Ihnatsenka , I. V. Zozoulenko

We define a mesoscopic ring in a 2-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) interrupted by two tunnel barriers, enabling us to apply a well-defined potential difference between the two halves of the ring. The electron interference in the ring is…

The amplitude of the Bohm-Aharonov oscillations of a particle moving around a ring threaded by a magnetic flux and coupled to different dissipative environments is studied. The decay of the oscillations when increasing the radius of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Guinea

We take a negative delta function impurity in one arm of a quasi one dimensional Aharonov-Bohm ring and demonstrate abrupt phase changes across a quasi bound state of the negative delta function potential. We give a new mechanism for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 P. Singha Deo

We present a microscopic picture of quantum transport in quantum antidots in the quantum Hall regime taking electron interactions into account. We discuss the edge state structure, energy level evolution, charge quantization and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Ihnatsenka , I. V. Zozoulenko , G. Kirczenow

The nonequilibrium real-time dynamics of electron coherence is explored in the quantum transport through the double-dot Aharonov-Bohm interferometers. We solve the exact master equation to find the exact quantum state of the device, from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-28 Matisse Wei-Yuan Tu , Wei-Min Zhang , Jinshuang Jin

We report phase coherent electron transport in PbTe nanowire networks with a loop geometry. Magneto-conductance shows Aharonov-Bohm (AB) oscillations with periods of $h/e$ and $h/2e$ in flux. The amplitude of $h/2e$ oscillations is enhanced…

We show that transport and thermodynamic properties of \emph{singly-connected} disordered conductors exhibit quantum Aharonov - Bohm oscillations with the total magnetic flux through the system. The oscillations are associated with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-05 I. L. Aleiner , A. V. Andreev , V. Vinokur

Magneto-oscillations of the electric dipole moment are predicted and analyzed for a single-electron nanoscale ring pierced by a magnetic flux (an Aharonov-Bohm ring) and subjected to an electric field in the ring's plane. These oscillations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-11 A. M. Alexeev , M. E. Portnoi

We analyse the conductance of the Aharonov - Bohm (AB) one- dimensional quantum ring touching a quantum wire. The period of the AB oscillations is shown to be dependent strongly on the chemical potential and the Rashba coupling parameter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 I. A. Shelykh , N. T. Bagraev , N. G. Galkin , L. E. Klyachkin

Electronic transport through a quantum dot chain embodied in an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer is theoretically investigated. In such a system, it is found that only for the configurations with the same-numbered quantum dots side-coupled to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Yu Han , Weijiang Gong , Haina Wu , Guozhu Wei

We show theoretically that strong electron coupling to circularly polarized photons in non-singly-connected nanostructures results in the appearance of an artificial gauge field that changes the electron phase. The effect arises from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-05 H. Sigurdsson , O. V. Kibis , I. A. Shelykh