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We study the amplitude of mesoscopic Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in quasi-one-dimensional (Q1D) diffusive rings. We consider first the low-temperature limit of a fully coherent sample. The variance of oscillation harmonics is calculated as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 T. Ludwig , A. D. Mirlin

We show here a mesoscopic device based on a narrow ring containing an electron. In the device, an amount of energy is stored in advance. Similar to the pendulum, an exact periodic motion of the electron is thereby initiated afterward. The…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-01-10 Yanzhang He , Chengguang Bao

We study the effects of correlations on a one dimensional ring threaded by a uniform magnetic flux. In order to describe the interaction between particles, we work in the framework of the U $\infty$ Hubbard and $t$-$J$ models. We focus on…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 V. Ferrari , G. Chiappe

Propagating slow magneto-acoustic waves are commonly observed in different coronal structures but are most prominent in active region fan loops. Their rapid damping with damping lengths of the order of a wavelength has been investigated in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-09 Suraj K. Tripathy , S. Krishna Prasad , D. Banerjee

The persistent current in small isolated rings enclosing magnetic flux is the current circulating in equilibrium in the absence of an external excitation. While initially studied in superconducting and normal metals, recently, atomic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-03-08 Ovidiu I. Patu , Dmitri V. Averin

We present the first observational evidence of multiple slow acoustic oscillations in the post flaring loops of the corona of Proxima Centauri using XMM-Newton observations. We find the signature of periodic oscillations localized in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. K. Srivastava , S. Lalitha , J. C. Pandey

We report the first experimental evidence of nontrivial thermal behavior of the simplest mesoscopic system - a superconducting loop. By measuring the specific heat C of an array of 450,000 noninteracting aluminum loops with very high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Bourgeois , S. E. Skipetrov , F. Ong , J. Chaussy

Chiral superconductors spontaneously break time-reversal symmetry and host topologically protected edge modes, supposedly generating chiral edge currents which are typically taken as a characteristic fingerprint of chiral superconductivity.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-15 Patric Holmvall , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

We investigate theoretically electron spin states in one dimensional (1D) and two dimensional (2D) hard-wall mesoscopic rings in the presence of both the Rashba spin-orbit interaction (RSOI) and the Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction (DSOI)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. S. Sheng , Kai Chang

In the present article we perform analytical and numerical calculations related to persistent currents in 2D isolated mesoscopic annular cavities threaded by a magnetic flux. The system considered has a high number of open channels and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. J. Fendrik , M. J. Sanchez

We report highly sensitive specific heat measurement on mesoscopic superconducting loops at low temperature. These mesoscopic systems exhibit thermal properties significantly different from that of the bulk materials. The measurement is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 O. Bourgeois , F. Ong , S. E. Skipetrov , J. Chaussy

The behavior of persistent current in a mesoscopic cylinder threaded by an Aharonov-Bohm flux $\phi$ is carefully investigated within a Hartree-Fock mean field approach. We examine the combined effect of second-neighbor hopping integral and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 Santanu K. Maiti

The authors report magnetic measurements of fluxoid transitions in mesoscopic, superconducting aluminum rings. The transitions are induced by applying a flux to the ring so that the induced supercurrent approaches the critical current. In a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-09-11 Hendrik Bluhm , Nicholas C. Koshnick , Martin E. Huber , Kathryn A. Moler

Quasi-periodic propagating intensity disturbances have been observed in large coronal loops in EUV images over a decade, and are widely accepted to be slow magnetosonic waves. However, spectroscopic observations from Hinode/EIS revealed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 X. Fang , D. Yuan , T. Van Doorsselaere , R. Keppens , C. Xia

We consider the effect of an oscillating potential on the single-particle spectrum and the time-averaged persistent current of a one-dimensional phase-coherent mesoscopic ring with a magnetic flux. We show that in a ring with an even number…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Moskalets , M. Buttiker

Terahertz quantum cascade lasers based on InGaAs wells and quaternary AlInGaAs barriers were measured in magnetic field. This study was carried out on a four quantum well active region design with photon energy of 14.3 meV processed both…

Chiral superconductors are topological as characterized by a finite Chern number and chiral edge modes. Direct fingerprints of chiral superconductivity are thus often taken to be spontaneous edge currents with associated magnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-09 Patric Holmvall , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

We study theoretically the contribution of fluctuating Cooper pairs to the persistent current in superconducting rings threaded by a magnetic flux. For sufficiently small rings, in which the coherence length $\xi$ exceeds the radius $R$,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-11-07 G. Schwiete , Y. Oreg

We explore OR gate response in a mesoscopic ring threaded by a magnetic flux $\phi$. The ring is symmetrically attached to two semi-infinite one-dimensional metallic electrodes and two gate voltages, viz, $V_a$ and $V_b$, are applied in one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-20 Santanu K. Maiti

We have done a study with small, imperfect Hubbard rings with exact diagonalization. The results for few-electron rings show, that the imperfection, whether localized or not, nearly always decrease, but can also \emph{increase} the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Koskinen , M. Manninen