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We present low-temperature magnetotransport measurements on selectively-grown Sb$_2$Te$_3$-based topological insulator ring structures. These topological insulator ring geometries display clear Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in the conductance…

We address the quantum dot phase measurement problem in an open Aharonov-Bohm interferometer, assuming multiple transport channels. In such a case, the quantum dot is characterized by more than one intrinsic phase for the electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Ţolea , M. Niţă , A. Aldea

We show that transport and thermodynamic properties of \emph{singly-connected} disordered conductors exhibit quantum Aharonov - Bohm oscillations with the total magnetic flux through the system. The oscillations are associated with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-05 I. L. Aleiner , A. V. Andreev , V. Vinokur

The gap oscillations caused by a magnetic flux penetrating a carbon nanotube represent one of the most spectacular observation of the Aharonov-Bohm effect at the nano--scale. Our understanding of this effect is, however, based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-04 Davide Sangalli , Andrea Marini

We have studied quantum interference between electrons and holes in a split-ring gold interferometer with graphene arms, one of which contained a pn junction. The carrier type, the pn junction and the phase of the oscillations in a magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Atikur Rahman , Janice Wynn Guikema , Soo Hyung Lee , Nina Markovic

Charge carriers in graphene are chiral quasiparticles ("massless Dirac fermions"). Graphene provides therefore an amazing opportunity to study subtle quantum relativistic effects in condensed matter experiment. Here I review a theory of one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-12 M. I. Katsnelson

The microreversibility principle implies that the conductance of a two-terminal Aharonov-Bohm interferometer is an even function of the applied magnetic flux. Away from linear response, however, this symmetry is not fulfilled and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-29 Jong Soo Lim , David Sanchez , Rosa Lopez

Designing platforms to control phase-coherence and interference of electron waves is a cornerstone for future quantum electronics, computing or sensing. Nanoporous graphene (NPG) consisting of linked graphene nanoribbons has recently been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-07 Gaetano Calogero , Nick R. Papior , Bernhard Kretz , Aran Garcia-Lekue , Thomas Frederiksen , Mads Brandbyge

The discovery of unusual heat conduction properties of graphene has led to a surge of theoretical and experimental studies of phonon transport in two-dimensional material systems. The rapidly developing graphene thermal field spans from…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-02-01 Denis L. Nika , Alexander A. Balandin

We study theoretically the transmission through a quantum dot molecule embedded in the arms of an Aharonov-Bohm four quantum dot ring threaded by a magnetic flux. The tunable molecular coupling provides a transmission pathway between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-28 Daniel A. Lovey , Sergio S. Gomez , Rodolfo H. Romero

The Aharonov-Bohm effect allows one to demonstrate the physical meaningfulness of magnetic vector potential by passing the current in zero magnetic field regions. In the standard (a {\em two-slit-like}) setup a conducting ring is pierced by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-23 Adam Rycerz , Dominik Suszalski

Seven types of armchair graphyne nanoribbons are investigated with HSE06 functional. The quantum confinements in the graphyne nanoribbons open or increase the band gaps of the corresponding two-dimensional graphynes, which is crucial to…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-25 Hongyu Ge , Guo Wang , Yi Liao

We study the effects of uniaxial strains on the transport properties of the graphene nanoribbons(GNRs) connected with two metallic leads in heterojunctions, using the transfer matrix method. Two typical GNRs with zigzag and armchair…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jing Wang , Guiping Zhang , Fei Ye , Xiaoqun Wang

Graphene nanoribbons (GNR) in mutually perpendicular electric and magnetic fields are shown to exhibit dramatic changes in their band structure and electron transport properties. A strong electric field across the ribbon induces multiple…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 Oleksiy Roslyak , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang

In this work, we investigated the effect of knots in the thermal transport of graphene nanoribbons through non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. We considered the cases of one, two, and three knots are present. Temperature jumps…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-04 Levi C. Felix , Alexandre F. Fonseca , Douglas S. Galvao

We have investigated the magnetoresistance of lithographically prepared single-layer graphene nanoribbons in pulsed, perpendicular magnetic fields up to 60 T and performed corresponding transport simulations using a tight-binding model and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-24 S. Minke , S. H. Jhang , J. Wurm , Y. Skourski , J. Wosnitza , C. Strunk , D. Weiss , K. Richter , J. Eroms

The influence of high magnetic fields on coherent transport is investigated. A monolayer graphene quantum ring is fabricated and the Aharonov-Bohm effect is observed. For increased magnitude of the magnetic field higher harmonics appear.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Dmitri Smirnov , Johannes C. Rode , Rolf J. Haug

Here, we report on our results where self-consistent calculations are performed to investigate the interference conditions, numerically. We employ the successful 4$^{th}$ order grid technique to obtain the actual electrostatic quantities of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-16 E. Cicek , A. Siddiki

We investigate the transport through a quantum ring, a dot and a barrier embedded in a nanowire in a homogeneous perpendicular magnetic field. To be able to treat scattering potentials of finite extent in magnetic field we use a mixed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vidar Gudmundsson , Yu-Yu Lin , Chi-Shung Tang , Valeriu Moldoveanu , Jens Hjorleifur Bardarson , Andrei Manolescu

We describe very fast electron dynamics for a graphene nanoribbon driven by a control electromagnetic field in the terahertz regime. The mobility as a function of bias possesses a large threshold value when entering a nonlinear transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , O. Roslyak
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