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A quantum Hall interferometer containing a grounded superconducting terminal is proposed. This geometry allows to control the Andreev and normal scattering amplitudes of sub-gap Bogoliubov quasiparticles with the Aharonov-Bohm phase, as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-08 Vadim Khrapai

We numerically investigate the effect of Klein tunneling on the Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in graphene rings using a tight-binding model with nearest-neighbor couplings. In order to introduce Klein tunneling into the system, we apply an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-31 Jörg Schelter , Dan Bohr , Björn Trauzettel

We study theoretically electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometers built from integer quantum Hall edge states, showing that the results of recent experiments can be understood in terms of multiparticle interference effects. These experiments…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-05-27 D. L. Kovrizhin , J. T. Chalker

We study the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect in two-dimensional mesoscopic frame in hole systems. We show that differing from the AB effect in electron systems, due to the presence of both the heavy hole and the light hole, the conductances not…

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

In this paper we investigate the scalar Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect in two of its forms, i.e., its electric form and its gravitational form. The standard form of the electric AB effect involves having particles (such as electrons) move in…

We simulate a hybrid superconductor-graphene device in the quantum Hall regime to identify the origin of downstream resistance oscillations in a recent experiment [Zhao et. al. Nature Physics 16, (2020)]. In addition to the previously…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-16 Antonio L. R. Manesco , Ian Matthias Flór , Chun-Xiao Liu , Anton R. Akhmerov

We present a detailed analysis of the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interference oscillations manifested through transmission of an electron in a mesoscopic ring with a magnetic impurity atom inserted in one of its arms. The spin polarization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sandeep K. Joshi , Debendranath Sahoo , A. M. Jayannavar

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

Quantum-mechanical calculations of electron magnetotransport in graphene Fabry-P\'{e}rot interferometers are presented with a focus on the role of spatial structure of edge channels. For an interferometer that is made by removing carbon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 S. Ihnatsenka

We report on the observation of quantum transport and interference in a graphene device that is attached with a pair of split gates to form an electrostatically-defined quantum point contact (QPC). In the low magnetic field regime, the…

The Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interference patterns in ring-shaped conductors are usually dominated by random features. The amplitude of the oscillations is random from sample to sample and from point to point on the magnetic field axis owing to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 J. Liu , W. X. Gao , K. Ismail , K. Y. Lee , J. M. Hong , S. Washburn

The two-dimensional quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect is direct evidence of non-trivial Berry curvature topology in condensed matter physics. Searching for QAH in 2D materials, particularly with simplified fabrication methods, poses a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Yueh-Ting Yao , Suyang Xu , Tay-Rong Chang

We consider magnetic graphene quantum dots (MGQDs) and study the impact of the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) flux and gap on the scattering process of electrons. Our emphasis is on the finite lifetimes of quasi-bound states arising from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Mohammed El Azar , Ahmed Bouhlal , Ahmed Jellal

We propose a mesoscopic circuit in the quantum Hall effect regime comprising two uncorrelated single-particle sources and two distant Mach-Zehnder interferometers with magnetic fluxes, which allows in a controllable way to produce orbitally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Janine Splettstoesser , Michael Moskalets , Markus Büttiker

We analyze the quantum Hall effect in single layer graphene with bilayer stripe defects. Such defects are often encountered at steps in the substrate of graphene grown on silicon carbide. We show that AB or AA stacked bilayer stripes result…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Tomas Lofwander , Pablo San-Jose , Elsa Prada

Using a perturbative approach, the effects of the energy gap induced by the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) flux on the transport properties of defective metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes (MSWCNTs) are investigated. The electronic waves scattered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-04 Mehran Bagheri

We present a microscopic picture of quantum transport in quantum antidots in the quantum Hall regime taking electron interactions into account. We discuss the edge state structure, energy level evolution, charge quantization and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Ihnatsenka , I. V. Zozoulenko , G. Kirczenow

The Aharonov-Bohm effect is the prime example of a zero-field-strength configuration where a non-trivial vector potential acquires physical significance, a typical quantum mechanical effect. We consider an extension of the traditional A-B…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-02-16 Fabio Franchini , Alfred Scharff Goldhaber

Snake states and Aharonov-Bohm interferences are examples of magnetoconductance oscillations that can be observed in a graphene p-n junction. Even though they have already been reported in suspended and encapsulated devices including…

We propose a device, consisting of a Hall bar with two weak barriers, that can be used to study quantum interference effects in a strongly correlated system. We show how the device provides a way of measuring the fractional charge and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 C. de C. Chamon , D. E. Freed , S. A. Kivelson , S. L. Sondhi , X. G. Wen