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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

The electron tunneling through a molecular junction modeled by a single site weakly coupled to two leads is studied in the presence of a time-dependent external field using a master equation approach. In the case of small bias voltages and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Guangqi Li , Michael Schreiber , Ulrich Kleinekathoefer

We present studies of the electron transport and circular currents induced by the bias voltage and the magnetic flux threading a ring of three quantum dots coupled with two electrodes. Quantum interference of electron waves passing through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Bogdan R. Bułka , Jakub Łuczak

We investigate the persistent current in a hybrid Aharonov-Bohm ring - quantum dot system coupled to a reservoir which provides spin fluctuations. It is shown that the spin exchange interaction between the quantum dot and the reservoir…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kicheon Kang , Sam Young Cho , Kyoung Wan Park

We present a simple model of transmission across a metallic mesoscopic ring. In one of its arm an electron interacts with a single magnetic impurity via an exchange coupling. We show that entanglement between electron and spin impurity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. M. Jayannavar

Current densities are induced in the electronic structure of molecules when they are exposed to external magnetic fields. Aromatic molecular rings sustain net diatropic ring currents, whereas the net ring current in antiaromatic molecular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Maria Dimitrova , Dage Sundholm

From first-principles approaches, we illustrate that the current-induced forces and the selection rule for inelastic effects are highly relevant to the current density in an asymmetric molecular junction. The curved flow of current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-10 Bailey C. Hsu , Allen Tseng , Yu-Chang Chen

Proximity induced quantum coherence of electrons in multi-terminal voltage-driven hybrid normal-superconducting nanostructures may result in a non-trivial interplay between topology-dependent Josephson and Aharonov-Bohm effects. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-05 Pavel E. Dolgirev , Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin

We investigate the effect of measurement on the persistent current density in a lattice ring penetrated by an Aharonov-Bohm flux and coupled to a quantum dot which is continuously monitored by a point contact detector. It is demonstrated by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yong-Ping Zhang , Ying-Fang Gao , J. -Q. Liang

We investigate the influence that classical dynamics has on interference patterns in coherence experiments. We calculate the time-integrated probability current through an absorbing screen and the conductance through a doubly connected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Philippe Jacquod

We investigate the persistent currents and magnetization of a mesoscopic system consisting of two clean metallic rings sharing a single contact point in a magnetic field. Many novel features with respect to the single-ring geometry are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Avishai , J. M. Luck

A powerful method of manipulating the dynamics of quantum coherent particles is to control the phase of their tunneling. We consider a system of two electrons hopping on a quasi one-dimensional lattice in the presence of a uniform magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-01 C. E. Creffield , G. Platero

We study the current magnification effect and associated circulating currents in mesoscopic systems at equilibrium. Earlier studies have revealed that in the presence of transport current(non-equilibrium situation), circulating currents can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Colin Benjamin , A. M. Jayannavar

In the present theoretical work, we numerically explore magnetic response of a tight-binding dimerized ring subjected to Aharonov-Bohm (AB) flux and environmental interactions. Specifically, we introduce an imaginary site potential on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Souvik Roy , Santanu K. Maiti

We consider the magnetic flux in a quantum mechanical superposition of two values and find that the Aharonov-Bohm effect interference pattern contains information about the nature of the superposition, allowing information about the state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-12 Kaća Bradonjić , John D. Swain

We analyze quantum interference and decoherence effects in single-molecule junctions both experimentally and theoretically by means of the mechanically controlled break junction technique and density-functional theory. We consider the case…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-26 Stefan Ballmann , Rainer Härtle , Pedro B. Coto , Marcel Mayor , Mark Elbing , Martin R. Bryce , Michael Thoss , Heiko B. Weber

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

The relativistic theory of the Dirac fermions moving on cylinders in external Aharonov-Bohm field is built starting with a suitably restricted Dirac equation whose spin degrees of freedom are not affected. The exact solutions of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-12 Ion I. Cotaescu , Doru-Marcel Baltateanu , Ion Cotaescu

We discuss the effect of quantum interference on transport through a quantum dot system. We introduce an indirect coherent coupling parameter alpha, which provides constructive/destructive interference in the transport current depending on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Tokura , H. Nakano , T. Kubo

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