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We develop a theoretical description of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer built from integer quantum Hall edge states, with an emphasis on how electron-electron interactions produce decoherence. We calculate the visibility of interference…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-22 J. T. Chalker , Yuval Gefen , M. Y. Veillette

We propose an electrodynamic Aharonov-Bohm (AB) scheme where a nonzero AB phase difference appears even if the interferometer paths do not enclose a magnetic flux and are subjected to negligible scalar potential differences during the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Pablo L. Saldanha

We theoretically investigated the dephasing in an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer containing a lateral double quantum dot induced by coupling with a quantum dot charge sensor. We employed the interpolative 2nd-order perturbation theory to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 T. Kubo , Y. Tokura , S. Tarucha

We simulate the dynamics of a single-electron source, modeled as a quantum dot with on-site Coulomb interaction and tunnel coupling to an adjacent lead, in time-dependent density functional theory. Based on this system, we develop a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Niklas Dittmann , Janine Splettstoesser , Nicole Helbig

The gap oscillations caused by a magnetic flux penetrating a carbon nanotube represent one of the most spectacular observation of the Aharonov-Bohm effect at the nano--scale. Our understanding of this effect is, however, based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-04 Davide Sangalli , Andrea Marini

Quantum-mechanical calculations of electron magneto-transport in ideal graphene nanoribbons are presented. In noninteracting theory, it is predicted that an ideal ribbon that is attached to wide leads should reveal Fabry-Perot conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-04 S. Ihnatsenka

We employ the density matrix renormalization group to construct the exact time-dependent exchange correlation potential for an impurity model with an applied transport voltage. Even for short-ranged interaction we find an infinitely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Peter Schmitteckert , Michael Dzierzawa , Peter Schwab

The conductance ${\cal G}$ of an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer (ABI), with a strongly correlated quantum dot on one arm, is expressed in terms of the dot Green function, $G_{dd}$, the magnetic flux $\phi$ and the non-interacting parameters…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Amnon Aharony , Ora Entin-Wohlman

We study the real time dynamics of electron coherence in a double quantum dot two-terminal Aharonov-Bohm geometry, taking into account repulsion effects between the dots' electrons. The system is simulated by extending a numerically exact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Salil Bedkihal , Dvira Segal

We consider a disordered system of gapless fermions interacting with a singular transverse (2+1)-dimensional gauge-field. We study quantum corrections to fermion conductivity and show that they are very different from those in a Fermi…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Victor Galitski

We investigate characteristic features of both non-interacting and interacting electrons in a M\"{o}bius strip, the simplest possible one-sided topological system, in presence of an Aharonov-Bohm flux $\phi$. Using Hartree-Fock mean field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-20 Madhumita Saha , Santanu K. Maiti

Electronic transport through a quantum dot strongly coupled to electrodes is studied within a model with two conduction channels. It is shown that multiple scattering and interference of transmitted waves through both channels lead to Fano…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bogdan R. Bulka , Piotr Stefanski

We study the conductance through a ring described by the Hubbard model (such as an array of quantum dots), threaded by a magnetic flux and subject to Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC). We develop a formalism that is able to describe the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-02-10 A. M. Lobos , A. A. Aligia

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

We present a detailed theoretical description of quantum coherent electron transport in voltage-biased cross-like Andreev interferometers. Making use of the charge conjugation symmetry encoded in the quasiclassical formalism, we elucidate a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-08-21 Pavel E. Dolgirev , Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei E. Tarkhov , Andrei D. Zaikin

We have measured weak antilocalization effects, universal conductance fluctuations, and Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in the two-dimensional electron gas formed in InGaAs/AlInAs heterostructures. This system possesses strong spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 L. H. Tzarfati , A. Aharony , O. Entin-Wohlman , M. Karpovski , V. Shelukhin , V. Umansky , A. Palevski

Exploring the time-dependent characteristics of AB-type effects holds significant importance in contemporary physics and its practical applications. Here, we delve into the investigation of time-dependent topological effects emerging in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-18 H. O. Cildiroglu

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

We consider the motion of electrons through a mesoscopic ring in the presence of spin-orbit interaction, Zeeman coupling, and magnetic flux. The coupling between the spin and the orbital degrees of freedom results in the geometric and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ya-Sha Yi , Tie-Zheng Qian , Zhao-Bin Su

Aharonov-Bohm mesoscopic solid-state interferometers yield a conductance which contains a term $\cos(\phi+\beta)$, where $\phi$ relates to the magnetic flux. Experiments with a quantum dot on one of the interfering paths aim to relate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony , Y. Imry , Y. Levinson , A. Schiller