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We present a unified treatment of the Aharonov--Bohm (AB) effect for two-dimensional multiband electronic systems possessing isotropic band structures. We propose an integral representation of the AB scattering state of an electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-17 Róbert Németh , József Cserti

As a consequence of the Aharonov-Bohm effect, there is a quantum-induced attraction between a charged particle and a rigid, impenetrable hoop made from an arbitrarily thin tube containing a superconductor quantum of magnetic flux. This is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alfred Scharff Goldhaber , Ryan Requist

Thermal transport and quantum thermodynamics at the nanoscale is nowadays garnering an increasing attention, in particular in the context of quantum technologies. Experiments relevant for quantum technology are expected to be performed in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Géraldine Haack , Francesco Giazotto

We study the persistent currents induced by the Aharonov-Bohm effect in a closed ring which either embeds or is directly side coupled to a quantum dot at Kondo resonance. We predict that in both cases, the persistent current is very…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Simon , I. Affleck

We report on the thermopower of an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer (AB) with a quantum dot in the Kondo limit. The thermopower is anomalously enhanced due to the Kondo effect as in heavy fermion systems. In contrast to the bulk systems, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tae-Suk Kim , S. Hershfield

The Peltier effect is the reverse phenomenon of the Seebeck effect, and has been observed experimentally in nanoscale junctions. However, despite its promising applications in local cooling of nanoelectronic devices, the role of strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-16 Xiangzhong Zeng , Lyuzhou Ye , Long Cao , Rui-Xue Xu , Xiao Zheng , Massimiliano Di Ventra

The influence of the environment in the thermal equilibrium properties of a bipartite continuous variable quantum system is studied. The problem is treated within a system-plus-reservoir approach. The considered model reproduces the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-05 D. M. Valente , A. O. Caldeira

Aharonov-Bohm (AB) oscillations are studied for a parallel coupled vertical double quantum dot with a common source and drain electrode. We observe AB oscillations of current via a one-electron bonding state as the ground state and an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-18 T. Hatano , T. Kubo , Y. Tokura , S. Amaha , S. Teraoka , S. Tarucha

The Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect is now largely considered to be a manifestation of geometric phase. However, by decomposing the vector-potential gradient tensor into divergence, curl, and shear components, we isolate a field/charged-particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Keith J. Kasunic

Confinement effects of Aharonov-Bohm (AB) flux and magnetic fields with topological defect on CO diatomic molecule modeled by screened modified Kratzer potential is investigated in this paper. The all-encompassing effects of the fields and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 C. O. Edet , A. N. Ikot

Navigating the intricacies of thermal management at the quantum scale is a challenge in the pursuit of advanced nanoscale technologies. To this extent, theoretical frameworks introducing minimal models mirroring the functionality of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-01 André H. A. Malavazi , Borhan Ahmadi , Paweł Mazurek , Antonio Mandarino

The electronic states and optical transitions of a ZnO quantum ring containing few interacting electrons in an applied magnetic field are found to be very different from those in a conventional semiconductor system, such as a GaAs ring. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Tapash Chakraborty , Aram Manaselyan , Manuk Barseghyan

Aharonov-Bohm effect is a quantum mechanical phenomenon that attracted the attention of many physicists and mathematicians since the publication of the seminal paper of Aharonov and Bohm [1] in 1959. We consider different types of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Gregory Eskin

We theoretically investigate the Seebeck and Peltier effect across an interacting quantum dot(QD) coupled between a normal metal and a Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer superconductor within the Coulomb blockade regime. Our results demonstrate that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Sachin Verma , Ajay

Using time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau theory we demonstrate that the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect, resulting from a Berry phase shift of the (macroscopic) wavefunction, is revealed through the dynamics of topological phase defects present in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-11-15 V. N. Gladilin , J. Tempere , J. T. Devreese , V. V. Moshchalkov

The Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect in non-commutative quantum mechanics (NCQM) is studied. First, by introducing a shift for the magnetic vector potential we give the Schr$\ddot{o}$dinger equations in the presence of a magnetic field on NC space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-07 Kang Li , Sayipjamal Dulat

We suggest a new approach to the theory of the contact thermoelectric cooling (Peltier effect). The metal-metal, metal-n-type semiconductor, metal-p-type semiconductor, p-n junction contacts are analyzed. Both degenerate and non-degenerate…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Yu. G. Gurevich , G. N. Logvinov , O. Yu. Titov , J. Giraldo

By considering a nanoscale Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometer containing a parrallel-coupled double dot coupled to the source and drain electrodes, we investigate the AB phase oscillations of transport current via the bonding and antibonding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Jian-Heng Liu , Matisse Wei-Yuan Tu , Wei-Min Zhang

Recent works showed that the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) phase difference for a quantum charged particle can be written in terms of electric and magnetic fluxes in a spacetime surface whose boundaries are the possible particle worldlines in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Hiram S. M. Rodrigues , Katson W. O. Arévola , Pablo L. Saldanha

The charge and entropy currents across a quantum point contact is expanded as a series in powers of the applied bias voltage and the temperature difference. After that, the expansions of the Seebeck voltage in temperature difference and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ali Cipiloglu , Sadi Turgut , Mehmet Tomak