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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

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 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

The linear conductance of a two-terminal Aharonov-Bohm interferometer is an even function of the applied magnetic flux, as dictated by the Onsager-Casimir symmetry. Away from linear response this symmetry may be broken when many-body…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Salil Bedkihal , Dvira Segal

The model of a ring threaded by the Aharonov-Bohm flux underlies our understanding of a coupling between gauge potentials and matter. The typical formulation of the model is based upon a single particle picture, and should be extended when…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-08-29 Fabian Brauneis , Areg Ghazaryan , Hans-Werner Hammer , Artem G. Volosniev

Nonequilibrium steady states are explicitly constructed for a noninteracting electron model of an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) ring with a quantum dot (QD) with the aid of asymptotic fields. The Fano line shapes and AB oscillations are shown to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Junko Takahashi , Shuichi Tasaki

We simulate transport in an atomtronic circuit of a Bose-Einstein condensate that flows from a source region into a drain through a gate channel. The time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation (GPE) solution matches the data of a recent…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-08-31 Aijun Li , Stephen Eckel , Benjamin Eller , Kayla E. Warren , Charles W. Clark , Mark Edwards

We study electron transport in a normal-metal ring modeled by the tight binding lattice Hamiltonian, coupled to two electron reservoirs. First, Buttiker's model of incorporating inelastic scattering, hence decoherence and dissipation, has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dibyendu Roy

Few-electron systems confined in a quantum dot laterally coupled to a surrounding quantum ring in the presence of an external magnetic field are studied by exact diagonalization. The distribution of electrons between the dot and the ring is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Szafran , F. M. Peeters , S. Bednarek

In a system of ac-driven condensed bosons we study a new type of Josephson effect occurring between states sharing the same region of space and the same internal atom structure. We first develop a technique to calculate the long time…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-07-31 M. Heimsoth , C. E. Creffield , L. D. Carr , F. Sols

The coherent quantum transport of matter wave through a ring-shaped circuit attached to leads defines an iconic system in mesoscopic physics that has allowed both to explore fundamental questions in quantum science and to draw important…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-06-17 Francesco Perciavalle , Oliver Morsch , Davide Rossini , Luigi Amico

A detailed description of the tunneling processes within Aharonov-Bohm (AB) rings containing two-dimensional quantum dots is presented. We show that the electronic propagation through the interferometer is controlled by the spectral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Moldoveanu , M. Ţolea , A. Aldea , B. Tanatar

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

Aharonov-Bohm (AB) caging, a special flat-band localization mechanism, has spurred great interest in different areas of physics. AB caging can be harnessed to explore the rich and exotic physics of quantum transport in flatband systems,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-11-24 Hang Li , Zhaoli Dong , Stefano Longhi , Qian Liang , Dizhou Xie , Bo Yan

A mesoscopic ring subject to the Rashba spin-orbit interaction and sequentially coupled to an interacting quantum dot, in the presence of Aharonov-Bohm flux, is proposed as a flux tunable tunneling diode. The analysis of the conductance by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-22 R. Citro , F. Romeo

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 two quantum dots embedded in the arms of an Aharonov-Bohm ring threaded by a magnetic flux. The system can be described by an effective one-impurity Anderson model with an energy- and flux-dependent density of states. For specific…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-27 Luis G. G. V. Dias da Silva , Nancy Sandler , Pascal Simon , Kevin Ingersent , Sergio E. Ulloa

The thermoelectric transport through a ring threaded by an Aharonov-Bohm flux, with a molecular bridge on one of its arms, is analyzed. The transport electrons also interact with the vibrational excitations of that molecule. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony

We consider the currents flowing in a solid-state interferometer under the effect of both an Aharonov-Bohm phase and a bias potential. Expressions are obtained for these currents, allowing for electronic or electron-boson interactions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 O. Entin-Wohlman , Y. Imry , A. Aharony

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