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We investigate the nonequilibrium transport properties of a silicene armchair nanoribbon with a random distribution of adsorbed atoms in apex positions. A ferromagnetic insulator grown below the nanoribbon splits spin-up and spin-down…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-10 C. Núñez , P. A. Orellana , L. Rosales , R. A. Römer , F. Domínguez-Adame

We present a theoretical framework for investigating superconducting proximity effect in altermagnet (AM)-superconductor (SC) heterostructures. In general, AMs, characterized by vanishing net magnetization but spin-split electronic spectra,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-20 Ohidul Alam , Amartya Pal , Paramita Dutta , Arijit Saha

One of the points at issue with closed-loop-type interferometers is beating in the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) oscillations. Recent observations suggest the possibility that the beating results from the Berry-phase pickup by the conducting electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-11 Sanghyun Jo , Gyong Luck Khym , Dong-In Chang , Yunchul Chung , Hu-Jong Lee , Kicheon Kang , Diana Mahalu , Vladimir Umansky

We study the magnetoconductance of topological insulator nanowires in a longitudinal magnetic field, including Aharonov-Bohm, Altshuler-Aronov-Spivak, perfectly conducting channel, and universal conductance fluctuation effects. Our focus is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-26 Vincent E. Sacksteder , Quansheng Wu

We present low-temperature transport experiments on Aharonov-Bohm (AB) rings fabricated from two-dimensional hole gases in p-type GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures. Highly visible h/e (up to 15%) and h/2e oscillations, present for different gate…

We analyze the effect of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and of a local tunnel barrier on the persistent spin and charge currents in a one-dimensional conducting Aharonov-Bohm (AB) ring symmetrically coupled to two leads. First, as an important…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Citro , F. Romeo

We study the Aharonov-Bohm effect in a coupled 2$\times$2 quantum dot array with two-terminals. A striking conductance dip arising from the Fano interference is found as the energy levels of the intermediate dots are mismatched, which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. Y. Zeng , F. Claro , Alejandro Pérez

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

Electron transport in a two-terminal Aharonov-Bohm ring with a few short-range scatterers is investigated. An analytical expression for the conductance as a function of the electron Fermi energy and magnetic flux is obtained using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-31 M. A. Kokoreva , V. A. Margulis , M. A. Pyataev

The physics in flat bands has emerged as an essential field in condensed matter physics where a plethora of phenomena can be unveiled, such as anomalous transport properties, superconductivity dominated by quantum geometry or exotic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-02 Biplab Pal , Maxime Thumin , Georges Bouzerar

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 study the effect of a finite proximity superconducting (SC) coherence length in SN and SNS junctions consisting of a semiconducting topological insulating wire whose ends are connected to either one or two s-wave superconductors. We find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-10 D. Chevallier , D. Sticlet , P. Simon , C. Bena

The quasi-two-dimensional electronic gas at the (111) SrTiO$_3$-based heterostructure interfaces is described by a multi-band tight-binding model providing electronic bands in agreement at low energies with photoemission experiments. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-14 Mattia Trama , Carmine Antonio Perroni , Vittorio Cataudella

We study the quantum interference effects induced by the Aharonov-Casher phase in asymmetrically confined two-dimensional electron and heavy-hole ring structures systems taking into account the electrically tunable spin-orbit (SO)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-17 M. F. Borunda , Xin Liu , Alexey A. Kovalev , Xiong-Jun Liu , T. Jungwirth , Jairo Sinova

In this work, we investigate the magnetic response by examining flux-driven circular currents in a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) tight-binding (TB) ring threaded by an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) flux, $\phi$. We consider both non-interacting and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Souvik Roy , Santanu K. Maiti , David Laroze

Although the conductance of a closed Aharonov-Bohm interferometer, with a quantum dot on one branch, obeys the Onsager symmetry under magnetic field reversal, it needs not be a periodic function of this field: the conductance maxima move…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Amnon Aharony , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Tomohiro Otsuka , Shingo Katsumoto , Hisashi Aikawa , Kensuke Kobayashi

We study Aharonov-Bohm effect in a two-terminal helical ring with long-range hopping in presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction. We explore how the spin polarization behavior changes depending on the applied magnetic flux and the incoming…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-11 Paramita Dutta , Arijit Saha , A. M. Jayannavar

In recent times, Bogoliubov Fermi surfaces (BFSs) in superconductors (SCs) have drawn significant attention due to a substantial population of Bogoliubov quasiparticles (BQPs) together with Cooper pairs (CPs) in them. The BQPs as zero…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-21 Amartya Pal , Arijit Saha , Paramita Dutta

We investigate theoretically the Andreev transport through a quantum dot strongly coupled with a normal metal/ferromagnet and a superconductor (N/F-QD-S), in which the interplay between the Kondo resonance and the Andreev bound states…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-09 Lin Li , Zhan Cao , Hong-Gang Luo , Fu-Chun Zhang , Wei-Qiang Chen

We address spin dependent transport through an array of diamonds in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit (SO) interaction where each diamond plaquette is penetrated by an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) flux $\phi$. The diamond chain is attached…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-21 Moumita Dey , Santanu K. Maiti , S. N. Karmakar