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Using an advanced tight-binding approach, we estimate the anisotropy of the tunnel transmission associated with the rotation of the 5/2 spin of a single Mn atom forming an acceptor state in GaAs and located near an AlGaAs tunnel barrier.…
The electrical conductance through a ring is sensitive to the threading magnetic flux. It contains a component that is periodic with an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) period equal to the quantum flux. In molecular/atomic loops on the nanometer scale,…
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…
Electron transport in thin metallic wires and films is strongly influenced by the quality of their surface. Weak localization and magnetoconductivity are also sensitive to the electron scattering at the edges of the sample. We study weak…
We study the spin-dependent magneto conductance in mesoscopic rings subject to an inhomogeneous in-plane magnetic field. We show that the polarization direction of transmitted spin-polarized electrons can be controlled via an additional…
We study the current flow through semiconductor quantum rings. In high magnetic field the current is usually injected to the arm of the ring preferred by classical magnetic forces. However, for narrow magnetic field intervals that appear…
In this paper, a new mesoscopic polygon which possesses smooth transition at its corners is proposed. Because of the particularity of structure, this kind of mesoscopic polygon can also be a geometrical supperlattice. The geometrical…
A novel conductance oscillation in a twisted quantum ring composed of a helical atomic configuration is theoretically predicted. Internal torsion of the ring is found to cause a quantum phase shift in the wavefunction that describes the…
The spatial distribution of electric current under magnetic field and the resultant orbital magnetism have been studied for two-dimensional electrons under a harmonic confining potential $V(\vecvar{r})=m \omega_0^2 r^2/2$ in various regimes…
We demonstrate that electron wave functions change their dimensionality at some commensurate directions of a magnetic field in conductors with open [quasi-one-dimensional (Q1D)] sheets of Fermi surface. These 1D -> 2D dimensional crossovers…
We present studies of the electron transport and circular currents induced by the bias voltage and the magnetic flux threading a ring of three quantum dots coupled with two electrodes. Quantum interference of electron waves passing through…
We investigate the properties of a two-dimensional quantum ring under rotating and external magnetic field effects. We initially analyse the Landau levels and inertial effects on them. Among the results obtained, we emphasize that the…
We study the effect of magnetic field and geometric confinement on excitons confined to a quantum ring. We use analytical matrix elements of the Coulomb interaction and diagonalize numerically the effective-mass Hamiltonian of the problem.…
We examine the microwave-photoexcited magnetoresistance oscillations in a tilted magnetic field in the high mobility two-dimensional electron system. In analogy to the 2D Shubnikov-de Haas effect, the characteristic field, $B_{f}$, and the…
Negative diagonal magneto-conductivity/resistivity is a spectacular- and thought provoking- property of driven, far-from-equilibrium, low dimensional electronic systems. The physical response of this exotic electronic state is not yet fully…
We study current flow around a density inhomogeneity in a two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of a strong magnetic field. The inhomogeneity is parametrized by a power-law tail with an exponent $\beta > 2$. We show that current and…
Electronic transport through a quantum dot strongly coupled to electrodes is studied within a model with two conduction channels. It is shown that multiple scattering and interference of transmitted waves through both channels lead to Fano…
Electronic transport properties through some model quantum systems are re-visited. A simple tight-binding framework is given to describe the systems where all numerical calculations are made using the Green's function formalism. First, we…
We have pointed out the possibility of quantum Hall effect or quantum patterns of transportation in a degenerate strongly magnetized quark matter, which might be expected inside a highly dense compact star. An anisotropic pattern of…
Magneto-resistance is a physical effect of great fundamental and industrial interest since it is the basis for the magnetic field sensors used in computer read-heads and Magnetic Random Access Memories. As device dimensions are reduced,…