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We investigate the ballistic electron transport in a two dimensional Quantum Wire under the action of an electric field ($E_y$). We demonstrate how the presence of a Spin Orbit coupling, due to the uniform electric confinement field gives a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Bellucci , P. Onorato

We develop a non-perturbative numerical method to study tunneling of a single electron through an Aharonov-Bohm ring where several strongly interacting electrons are bound. Inelastic processes and spin-flip scattering are taken into…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-31 R. Zitko , J. Bonca

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 employ a path integral real time approach to compute the DC conductance and spin polarization for electrons transported across a ballistic Quantum Ring with Rashba spin-orbit interaction. We use a piecewise semiclassical approximation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-07-23 P. Lucignano , D. Giuliano , A. Tagliacozzo

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

We put forward a new approach based on Green's function formalism to evaluate precisely persistent charge and spin currents in an Aharonov-Bohm ring subjected to Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. Unlike conventional methods…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-19 Santanu K. Maiti , Moumita Dey , S. N. Karmakar

A numerical approach is employed to explain transport characteristics in realistic, quantum Hall based Aharonov-Bohm interferometers. First, the spatial distribution of incompressible strips, and thus the current channels, are obtained…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-24 V. Kotimaki , E. Cicek , A. Siddiki , E. Rasanen

We use spin-density-functional theory within an envelope function approach to calculate electronic states in a GaAs/InAs core-shell nanowire pierced by an axial magnetic field. Our fully 3D quantum modeling includes explicitly the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-31 Miquel Royo , Carlos Segarra , Andrea Bertoni , Guido Goldoni , Josep Planelles

We theoretically study the single electron transfer through two-terminal quantum ring capacitively coupled to charged dot placed in its center. For this purpose we solve time-dependent Schrodinger equation for fully correlated two-particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 T. Chwiej , K. Kutorasinski

Mesoscopic conductors are electronic systems of sizes in between nano- and micrometers, and often of reduced dimensionality. In the phase-coherent regime at low temperatures, the conductance of these devices is governed by quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-27 Michael Wimmer , Matthias Scheid , Klaus Richter

A single-mode microcavity with an embedded Aharonov-Bohm quantum ring, which is pierced by a magnetic flux and subjected to a lateral electric field, is studied theoretically. It is shown that external electric and magnetic fields provide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-02 A. M. Alexeev , I. A. Shelykh , M. E. Portnoi

We have investigated the Aharonov-Bohm effect in a one-dimensional GaAs/GaAlAs ring at low magnetic fields. The oscillatory magnetoconductance of these systems are for the first time systematically studied as a function of density. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Pedersen , A. E. Hansen , A. Kristensen , C. B. Soerensen , P. E. Lindelof

Ring geometries have fascinated experimental and theoretical physicists over many years. Open rings connected to leads allow the observation of the Aharonov-Bohm effect, a paradigm of quantum mechanical phase coherence. The phase coherence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Fuhrer , S. Luescher , T. Ihn , T. Heinzel , K. Ensslin , W. Wegscheider , M. Bichler

We present low-temperature magnetotransport measurements on graphene rings encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride. We investigate phase-coherent transport and show Aharonov-Bohm (AB) oscillations in quasi-ballistic graphene rings with hard…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Jan Dauber , Martin Oellers , Florian Venn , Alexander Epping , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Fabian Hassler , Christoph Stampfer

We present a theory for spin selective Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in a lateral triple quantum dot. We show that to understand the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect in an interacting electron system within a triple quantum dot molecule (TQD) where…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-03-11 F. Delgado , Y. -P. Shim , M. Korkusinski , L. Gaudreau , S. A. Studenikin , A. S. Sachrajda , P. Hawrylak

Electron transport through a one-dimensional ring connected with two external leads, in the presence of spin-orbit interaction (SOI) of strength \alpha and a perpendicular magnetic field is studied. Applying Griffith's boundary conditions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Molnar , F. M. Peeters , P. Vasilopoulos

Simulating quantum transport through mesoscopic, ring-shaped graphene structures, we address various quantum coherence and interference phenomena. First, a perpendicular magnetic field, penetrating the graphene ring, gives rise to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-21 Alexander Filusch , Christian Wurl , Andreas Pieper , Holger Fehske

Quantum interference effects in rings provide suitable means for controlling spin at mesoscopic scales. Here we apply such a control mechanism to the spin-dependent transport in a ballistic quasi one dimensional ring patterned in two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Bellucci , P. Onorato

We study electron transport through a semiconductor quantum ring with one input and two output terminals for an elastic scatterer present within one of the arms of the ring. We demonstrate that the scatterer not only introduces asymmetry in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-14 B. Szafran , M. R. Poniedzialek

Coherent motion of electrons in a twisted quantum ring is considered to explore the effect of torsion inherent to the ring. Internal torsion of the ring composed of helical atomic configuration yields a non-trivial quantum phase shift in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Hisao Taira , Hiroyuki Shima