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Photonic gauge potentials are crucial for manipulating charge-neutral photons like their counterpart electrons in the electromagnetic field, allowing analogous Aharonov-Bohm effect in photonics and paving the way for critical applications…

The Aharonov-Bohm effect is one of the most surprising wonders of the quantum world. The observed solenoid effect, as well as others, shows that a particle is affected by the potential in a region in which there is no force-field. This is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-02 J. Bernabeu , C. Espinoza

Magnetic Aharonov-Bohm effect (AB effect) was studied in hundreds of papers starting with the seminal paper of Aharonov and Bohm [AB] published in 1959. We give a new proof of the magnetic Aharonov-Bohm effect without using the scattering…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Gregory Eskin

We study transport properties of a topological insulator nanowire when a magnetic field is applied along its length. We predict that with strong surface disorder, a characteristic signature of the band topology is revealed in Aharonov Bohm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-15 Yi Zhang , Ashvin Vishwanath

We report a numerical study on Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect and giant magnetoresistance in rectangular rings made of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs). We show that in low energy regime where only the first subband of contact GNRs contributes to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-05 Viet-Hung Nguyen , Yann-Michel Niquet , Philippe Dollfus

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…

This is a review of electronic quantum interference in mesoscopic ring structures based on graphene, with a focus on the interplay between the Aharonov-Bohm effect and the peculiar electronic and transport properties of this material. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-06 Jörg Schelter , Patrik Recher , Björn Trauzettel

We investigate the magnetoresistance of a side-gated ring structure etched out of single-layer graphene. We observe Aharonov-Bohm oscillations with about 5% visibility. We are able to change the relative phases of the wave functions in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-18 Magdalena Huefner , Françoise Molitor , Arnhild Jacobsen , Alessandro Pioda , Christoph Stampfer , Klaus Ensslin , Thomas Ihn

We consider the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect on a confined electron ground state in a quantum ring defined electrostatically within the phosphorene monolayer. The strong anisotropy of effective masses in phosphorene quenches ground-state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-25 Tanmay Thakur , Bartlomiej Szafran

The optical exciton Aharonov-Bohm effect, i. e. an oscillatory component in the energy of optically active (bright) states, is investigated in nanorings. It is shown that a small effective electron mass, strong confinement of the electron,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Grochol , F. Grosse , R. Zimmermann

We have explored phase coherent transport of holes in two p-type GaAs quantum rings with orbital radii 420 nm and 160 nm fabricated with AFM oxidation lithography. Highly visible Aharonov-Bohm (AB) oscillations are measured in both rings,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-30 Boris Grbic , Renaud Leturcq , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin , Dirk Reuter , Andreas D. Wieck

Ultra-wide bandgap (UWBG) materials hold immense potential for high-power RF electronics and deep ultraviolet photonics. Among these, AlGaN emerges as a promising candidate, offering a tunable bandgap from 3.4 eV (GaN) to 6.1 eV (AlN) and…

We study the Fano-Kondo effect in a closed Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometer which contains a single-level quantum dot and predict a frequency doubling of the AB oscillations as a signature of Kondo-correlated states. Using Keldysh…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Walter Hofstetter , Jürgen König , Herbert Schoeller

Flat bands play a central role in hosting emergent states of matter in many condensed matter systems, from the nascent insulating states of twisted bilayer graphene to the fractionalized excitations found in frustrated magnets and quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-04-02 Tao Chen , Chenxi Huang , Ivan Velkovsky , Tomoki Ozawa , Hannah Price , Jacob P. Covey , Bryce Gadway

The physics in flat bands has emerged as an essential field in condensed matter physics where a plethora of phenomena can be unveiled, such as anomalous transport properties, superconductivity dominated by quantum geometry or exotic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-02 Biplab Pal , Maxime Thumin , Georges Bouzerar

The unification of quantum mechanics and general relativity remains among the most profound challenges in fundamental physics. Here we investigate a novel quantum probe of strong-field gravity: the gravitomagnetic Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-25 Erdem Sucu , İzzet Sakallı

We investigate theoretically the transport of non--interacting electrons through an Aharanov--Bohm (AB) interferometer with two quantum dots (QD) embedded into its arms. In the Coulomb-blockade regime, transport through each QD proceeds via…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Hans A. Weidenmueller

Mesoscopic Aharonov-Bohm interferometers have been used in attempts to measure the transmission phase of a quantum dot which is placed on one arm of the interferometer. Here we review theoretical results for the conductance through such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 A. Aharony , O. Entin-Wohlman , Y. Imry

We propose the $2\pi$-periodic Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect as a nonlocal probe of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) without the restriction of fermion parity. We demonstrate the enhancement of the AB effect, where the topological protection of MZMs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Masayuki Sugeta , Takeshi Mizushima , Satoshi Fujimoto

We theoretically investigate electron transport through an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer containing laterally coupled double quantum dots. We introduce the indirect coupling parameter $\alpha$, which characterizes the strength of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Toshihiro Kubo , Yasuhiro Tokura , Tsuyoshi Hatano , Seigo Tarucha