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We study the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect in two-dimensional mesoscopic frame in hole systems. We show that differing from the AB effect in electron systems, due to the presence of both the heavy hole and the light hole, the conductances not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Zhou , M. W. Wu , M. Q. Weng

In the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect, interference fringes are observed for a charged particle in the absence of the local overlap with the external electromagnetic field. This notion of the apparent nonlocality of the interaction or the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Kicheon Kang

The gauge invariance of the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect with a quantum treatment for the electromagnetic field is demonstrated. We provide an exact solution for the electromagnetic ground energy due to the interaction of the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Pablo L. Saldanha

Tunneling conductance of an Aharonov-Bohm circuit including two quantum dots is calculated based on the general expression of the conductance in the linear response regime of the bias voltage. The calculation is performed in a wide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Wataru Izumida , Osamu Sakai , Yukihiro Shimizu

We have investigated experimentally resonant tunnelling through single-particle states formed around an antidot by a magnetic field, in the fractional quantum Hall regime. For 1/3 filling factor around the antidot, Aharonov-Bohm…

It is commonly believed that the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect is a typical feature of the motion of a charged particle interacting with the electromagnetic vector potential. Here we present a magnetophotoluminescence study of type-II InP/GaAs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Ribeiro , G. Medeiros-Ribeiro , W. Carvalho , A. O. Govorov

The quantum nature of matter lies in the wave function phases that accumulate while particles move along their trajectories. A prominent example is the Aharonov-Bohm phase, which has been studied in connection with the conductance of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 A. O. Govorov , S. E. Ulloa , K. Karrai , R. J. Warburton

The Aharanov-Bohm (AB) effect, which predicts that a magnetic field strongly influences the wave function of an electrically charged particle, is investigated in a three site system in terms of the quantum control by an additional dephasing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-15 Georg Engelhardt , Jianshu Cao

It is analysed Aharonov-Bohm-type effects when a spinless quantum particle is in an elastic medium with the distortion of a vertical line into a vertical spiral. By confining the spinless particle to a cylindrical box, the analogue of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-04 W. C. F. da Silva , K. Bakke

Aharonov-Bohm (AB) oscillations are studied for a parallel coupled vertical double quantum dot with a common source and drain electrode. We observe AB oscillations of current via a one-electron bonding state as the ground state and an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-18 T. Hatano , T. Kubo , Y. Tokura , S. Amaha , S. Teraoka , S. Tarucha

We investigate the magnetoresistance of a side-gated ring structure etched out of single-layer graphene. We observe Aharonov-Bohm oscillations with about 5% visibility. We are able to change the relative phases of the wave functions in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-18 Magdalena Huefner , Françoise Molitor , Arnhild Jacobsen , Alessandro Pioda , Christoph Stampfer , Klaus Ensslin , Thomas Ihn

We study a multi-functional device for cold atoms consisting of a three-terminal ring circuit pierced by a synthetic magnetic flux, where the ring can be continuous or discretized. The flux controls the atomic current through the ring via…

Aharonov-Bohm oscillations are observed in a graphene quantum ring with a top gate covering one arm of the ring. As graphene is a gapless semiconductor this geometry allows to study not only the quantum interference of electrons with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 D. Smirnov , H. Schmidt , R. J. Haug

We present an application of the affine covariant integral quantization (ACIQ) (Adv. Oper. Theory, 5, 2020; Adv. Oper. Theory, 7, 2022) to quantum mechanics on the punctured plane. The associated four-dimensional phase space is identified…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Jean-Pierre Gazeau , Tomoi Koide , Romain Murenzi , Aidan Zlotak

We report electronic transmission properties of a tight binding Aharonov-Bohm ring threaded by a magnetic flux, to one arm of which a finite cluster of atoms has been attached from one side. we demonstrate that, by suitably choosing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Supriya Jana , Arunava Chakrabarti

Rectification of electron wave-packets propagating along a quasi-one dimensional chain is commonly achieved via the simultaneous action of nonlinearity and longitudinal asymmetry, both confined to a limited portion of the chain termed wave…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-06-13 Yunyun Li , Jun Zhou , Fabio Marchesoni , Baowen Li

We investigate Aharonov-Bohm-type oscillations of the thermopower of a quantum dot embedded in a ring for the case when the interaction between electrons can be neglected. The thermopower is shown to be strongly flux dependent, and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Ya. M. Blanter , C. Bruder , Rosario Fazio , Herbert Schoeller

Inverted-band $pn$ junctions in two-dimensional materials offer a promising platform for electron optics in condensed matter, as they allow to manipulate and guide electron beams without the need for spatial confinement. In this work, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Yuhao Zhao , Oded Zilberberg , Antonio Štrkalj

Recent works showed that the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) phase difference for a quantum charged particle can be written in terms of electric and magnetic fluxes in a spacetime surface whose boundaries are the possible particle worldlines in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Hiram S. M. Rodrigues , Katson W. O. Arévola , Pablo L. Saldanha

The Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect in a small array of antidots with large aspect ratio is investigated in the quantum Hall regime. The evolution with temperature of the AB oscillations in the magnetic field vs gate voltage (B-Vg) plane reveals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Masanori kato , Akira Endo , Shingo Katsumoto , Yasuhiro Iye