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The lowest eigenenergies of few, strongly interacting electrons in a one--dimensional ring are studied in the presence of an impurity barrier. The persistent current $\:I\:$, periodic in an Aharonov--Bohm flux penetrating the ring, is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Wolfgang Häusler

Aharonov-Bohm Physics at the two-particle level is investigated for distinguishable interacting charged particles through the exact solution of a toy model with confined states. The effect of the inaccessible magnetic flux is distributed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-05 Kyriakos Kyriakou , Konstantinos Moulopoulos , Areg Ghazaryan , Anahit Djotyan

We study the persistent currents induced by the Aharonov-Bohm effect in a closed ring which either embeds or is directly side coupled to a quantum dot at Kondo resonance. We predict that in both cases, the persistent current is very…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Simon , I. Affleck

Electronic transport in a one-dimensional mesoscopic ring threaded by a magnetic flux is studied in presence of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. A completely analytical technique within a tight-binding formalism unveils the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-30 Santanu K. Maiti , Moumita Dey , Shreekantha Sil , Arunava Chakrabarti , S. N. Karmakar

We theoretically investigate the spin-dependent Seebeck effect in an Aharonov-Bohm mesoscopic ring in the presence of both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions under magnetic flux perpendicular to the ring. We apply the Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Bin Liu , Yunyun Li , Jun Zhou , Tsuneyoshi Nakayama , Baowen Li

Spin states and persistent currents are investigated theoretically in a mesoscopic ring with an embedded magnetic ion under a uniform magnetic field including the spin-orbit interactions. The magnetic impurity acts as a spin-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. S. Sheng , Kai Chang

We present a comprehensive investigation into the charge and spin circular currents in a mesoscopic hybrid system, with a particular focus on the intricate interplay between the Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper (AAH) potential, Aharonov-Bohm (AB) flux,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 Joydeep Majhi , Santanu K. Maiti

Determination of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction strengths in a particular sample remains a challenge even today. In this article we investigate the possibilities of measuring the absolute values of these interaction strengths…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-20 Santanu K. Maiti

We investigate the properties of strongly correlated electronic models on a flux-threaded ring connected to semi-infinite free-electron leads. The interference pattern of such an Aharonov-Bohm ring shows sharp dips at certain flux values,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Hallberg , A. A. Aligia , A. P. Kampf , B. Normand

We study coherent charge transfer between an Aharonov-Bohm ring and a side-attached quantum dot. The charge fluctuation between the two sub-structures is shown to give rise to algebraic suppression of the persistent current circulating the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Kicheon Kang , Sam Young Cho , Ju-Jin Kim

Quantum interference in Aharonov-Bohm (AB) ring structure provides additional control of spin at mesoscopic scale. We propose a scheme for spin filter by studying the coherent transport through the AB structure with lateral magnetic…

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

We study spin effects in the magneto-conductance of ballistic mesoscopic systems subject to inhomogeneous magnetic fields. We present a numerical approach to the spin-dependent Landauer conductance which generalizes recursive Green function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Diego Frustaglia , Martina Hentschel , Klaus Richter

Persistent currents flowing through disordered mesoscopic rings threaded by a magnetic flux are investigated. Models of fermions with on-site interactions (Hubbard model) or models of spinless fermions with nearest neighbor interactions are…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Georges Bouzerar , Didier Poilblanc

We investigate spin-dependent conductance through a quantum Aharonov-Bohm ring containing localized electrons which interact with the propagating flow of electrons via exchange interaction of the ferromagnetic or antiferromagnetic type. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-26 I. G. Savenko , R. G. Polozkov , I. A. Shelykh

Majorana fermions act as their own antiparticle, and they have long been thought to be confined to the realm of pure theory. However, interest in them has recently resurfaced, as it was realized through the work of Kitaev that some…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-16 T. C. Bartolo , J. S. Smith , B. Muralidharan , C. Müller , T. M. Stace , J. H. Cole

We have calculated the persistent spin current of an open ring induced by the Aharonov-Casher phase. For unpolarized electrons there exist no persistent charge currents, but persistent spin currents. We show that, in general, the magnitude…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Taeseung Choi , Chang-Mo Ryu , A. M. Jayannavar

We establish an exact analytical treatment for the determination of the strengths of the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions in a single sample by measuring persistent spin current. A hidden symmetry is exploited in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-28 Santanu K. Maiti , Shreekantha Sil , Arunava Chakrabarti

We propose a general scattering matrix formalism that guarantees the charge conservation at junctions between conducting arms with arbitrary spin interactions. By using our formalism, we find that the spin-flip scattering can happen even at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-07 Minchul Lee , Dimitrije Stepanenko

A recursive Green's function technique is developed to calculate the spin-dependent conductance in mesoscopic structures. Using this technique, we study the spin-dependent electronic transport of quantum point contacts in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Shi-Liang Zhu , Z. D. Wang , Lian Hu

I construct a minimal formalism to describe transport of non separable correlations arising when a superconductor is in contact with several electrodes (being ferromagnetic or normal metal). Transport theory is expressed in terms of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Mélin