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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 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 investigate the possibility of an electromechanical which-path interferometer, in which electrons travelling through an Aharonov-Bohm ring incorporating a quantum dot in one of the arms are dephased by an interaction with the fundamental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. D. Armour , M. P. Blencowe

When electrons are confined in two-dimensional (2D) materials, quantum mechanically enhanced transport phenomena, as exemplified by the quantum Hall effects (QHE), can be observed. Graphene, an isolated single atomic layer of graphite, is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yuanbo Zhang , Yan-Wen Tan , Horst L. Stormer , Philip Kim

Two-dimensional graphene, carbon nanotubes and graphene nanoribbons represent a novel class of low dimensional materials that could serve as building blocks for future carbon-based nanoelectronics. Although these systems share a similar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-05 Alessandro Cresti , Norbert Nemec , Blanca Biel , Gabriel Niebler , Francois Triozon , Gianaurelio Cuniberti , Stephan Roche

Aharonov-Bohm interferometry is the most direct probe of anyonic statistics in the quantum Hall effect. The technique involves oscillations of the electric current as a function of the magnetic field and is not applicable to Kitaev spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-12 Zezhu Wei , V. F. Mitrović , D. E. Feldman

We have realized nanometer size constrictions in ballistic graphene nanoribbons grown on sidewalls of SiC mesa structures. The high quality of our devices allows the observation of a number of electronic quantum interference phenomena. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Jens Baringhaus , Mikkel Settnes , Johannes Aprojanz , Stephen R. Power , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Christoph Tegenkamp

Transport in a two-dimensional electron gas subject to an external magnetic field is analyzed in the presence of a \textit{longitudinal barrier.} We show that \textit{quantum interference of the edge states} bound by the longitudinal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. M. Kadigrobov , M. V. Fistul , K. B. Efetov

We study the transport property for armchair-edge graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) with an adatom coupling to a semi-infinite quantum wire. Using the nonequilibrium Green's function approach with tight-binding approximation, we demonstrate that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Xiongwen Chen , Kehui Song , Benhu Zhou , Haiyan Wang , Guanghui Zhou

We provide a broad review of fundamental electronic properties of two-dimensional graphene with the emphasis on density and temperature dependent carrier transport in doped or gated graphene structures. A salient feature of our review is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 S. Das Sarma , Shaffique Adam , E. H. Hwang , Enrico Rossi

We report a numerical study on Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect and parity selective tunneling in pn junctions based on zigzag graphene nanoribbon rings. We find that when applying a magnetic field to the ring, the AB interference can reverse the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-02 Viet-Hung Nguyen , Yann-Michel Niquet , Philippe Dollfus

Structural and electronic properties, including deformation, magnetic moment, Mulliken population, bond order as well as electronic transport properties, of zigzag graphene nanoribbon (ZGNR) with Co adatom on hollow site are investigated by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-19 G. P. Zhang , Xiaojie Liu , C. Z. Wang , Y. X. Yao , Jian Zhang , K. M. Ho

We investigate magneto-transport through graphene nano-ribbons as a function of gate and bias voltage, and temperature. We find that a magnetic field systematically leads to an increase of the conductance on a scale of a few tesla. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 Jeroen B. Oostinga , Benjamin Sacepe , Monica F. Craciun , Alberto F. Morpurgo

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 will present brief overview on the electronic and transport properties of graphene nanoribbons focusing on the effect of edge shapes and impurity scattering. The low-energy electronic states of graphene have two non-equivalent massless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-30 Katsunori Wakabayashi , Yositake Takane , Masayuki Yamamoto , Manfred Sigrist

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 current-voltage (I-V) characteristics of armchair graphene nanoribbons under a local uniaxial tension are investigated by using first principles quantum transport calculations. It is shown that for a given value of bias-voltage, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-07 Mehmet Topsakal , V. M. Kemal Bagci , Salim Ciraci

Here we investigate high frequency AC transport through narrow graphene nanoribbons with topgate potentials that form a localized quantum dot. We show that as a consequence of the finite dwell time of an electron inside the quantum dot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Milan Begliarbekov , Stefan Strauf , Christopher P Search

We present a microscopic picture of quantum transport in the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometer taking into account electron interaction within the Hartree and the spin density functional theory approximations. We discuss the structure of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Ihnatsenka , I. V. Zozoulenko

Defects in semiconductors, traditionally seen as detrimental to electronic device performance, have emerged as potential assets in quantum technologies due to their unique quantum properties. This study investigates the interaction between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-19 Motoya Shinozaki , Takaya Abe , Kazuma Matsumura , Takumi Aizawa , Takashi Kumasaka , Tomohiro Otsuka