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The persistent current in two vertically coupled quantum rings containing few electrons is studied. We find that the Coulomb interaction between the rings in the absence of tunneling affects the persistent current in each ring and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-30 L. K. Castelano , G. -Q. Hai , B. Partoens , F. M. Peeters

Quantum tunneling of an electron through a classically forbidden regime has no classical analogue and several aspects of it are still not well understood. In this work we analyze electronic currents under the barrier. For this we consider a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 Sreemoyee Mukherjee , P. Singha Deo , A. M. Jayannavar

We investigate a cavity quantum electrodynamic effect, where the alignment of two-dimensional freely rotating optical dipoles is driven by their collective coupling to the cavity field. By exploiting the formal equivalence of a set of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Erika Cortese , Pavlos Lagoudakis , Simone De Liberato

We show theoretically that the strong coupling of circularly polarized photons to an exciton in ring-like semiconductor nanostructures results in physical nonequivalence of clockwise and counterclockwise exciton rotations in the ring. As a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-10 O. V. Kibis , H. Sigurdsson , I. A. Shelykh

The Aharonov-Bohm effect is investigated in two-dimensional, single-terminal quantum rings in magnetic fields by using time-dependent density-functional theory. We find multiple transport loops leading to the oscillation periods of h/(en),…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-06-22 V. Kotimaki , E. Rasanen

We investigate the effects of impurities and changing ring geometry on the energetics of quantum rings under different magnetic field strengths. We show that as the magnetic field and/or the electron number are/is increased, both the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Aichinger , S. A. Chin , E. Krotscheck , E. Rasanen

The Aharonov-Bohm effect is measured in a four-terminal open ring geometry based on a Ga[Al]As heterostructure. Two quantum dots are embedded in the structure, one in each of the two interfering paths. The number of electrons in the two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Sigrist , A. Fuhrer , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin , S. E. Ulloa , W. Wegscheider , M. Bichler

We present exotic quantum phases in a quantum Rabi hexagonal ring, which is derived by an analytical solution. We find that an artificial magnetic field applied in the ring induces an effect magnetic flux in the even and odd subring. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-22 Lin-Jun Li , Li-Lu Feng , Jia-Hao Dai , Yu-Yu Zhang

The quantum dynamics of quasi-one-dimensional ring with varying electron filling factor is investigated in presence of external electric field. The system is modeled within Hubbard Hamiltonian with attractive Coulomb correlation, which…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-04-21 Bradraj Pandey , Sudipta Dutta , Swapan K. Pati

Electromagnetic duality between the Aharonov-Bohm and the Aharonov-Casher quantum mechanical phases predicts the existence of a new collective state of matter which can be regarded as a spin dual to the fractional quantum Hall effect. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-05 Jean J. Heremans , Djordje Minic

A narrow elliptic ring containing an electron threaded by a magnetic field B is studied. When the ring is highly flattened, the increase of B would lead to a big energy gap between the ground and excited states, and therefore lead to a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Shuping Situ , Yanzhang He , Chengguang Bao

We calculate the oscillations of the DC conductance across a mesoscopic ring, simultaneously tuned by applied magnetic and electric fields orthogonal to the ring. The oscillations depend on the Aharonov-Bohm flux and of the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Capozza , D. Giuliano , P. Lucignano , A. Tagliacozzo

The new integrable quantum spin model is proposed. The model has a biaxial magnetic anisotropy of alternating coupling between spins together with multiple spin interactions. Our model gives the possibility to exactly find thermodynamic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-19 A. A. Zvyagin

We consider the ground state of an electron gas embedded in a quantum gyrotropic cavity. We show that the light-matter interaction leads to a nontrivial topology of the many-body electron-photon wave function characterized by a nonzero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Ilya Tokatly , Dmitry Gulevich , Ivan Iorsh

Quantum interference in Aharonov-Bohm (AB) ring structure provides additional control of spin at mesoscopic scale. We propose a scheme for spin filter by studying the coherent transport through the AB structure with lateral magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. W. Wu , J. Zhou , Q. W. Shi

We have investigated the Aharonov-Bohm effect in a one-dimensional GaAs/GaAlAs ring at low magnetic fields. The oscillatory magnetoconductance of these systems are for the first time systematically studied as a function of density. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Pedersen , A. E. Hansen , A. Kristensen , C. B. Soerensen , P. E. Lindelof

In the present review we make a comprehensive analysis of our understanding on electron transport in mesoscopic single-channel rings and multi-channel cylinders within a tight-binding framework. A spectacular mesoscopic phenomenon where a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-22 Santanu K. Maiti

The ground states of few electrons confined in two vertically coupled quantum rings in the presence of an external magnetic field are studied systematically within the current spin-density functional theory. Electron-electron interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-05 L. K. Castelano , G. -Q. Hai , B. Partoens , F. M. Peeters

The time dependent Schr\"odinger equation for an electron passing through a semiconductor quantum ring of nonzero width is solved in the presence of a perpendicular homogenous magnetic field. We study the effects of the Lorentz force on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Szafran , F. M. Peeters

The interaction of quantum light with matter like that inside a cavity is known to give rise to mixed light-matter states called polaritons. We discuss the impact of rotation of the cavity on the polaritons. It is shown that the number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-04 Lorenz S. Cederbaum