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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

We study the transport of electrons through a single-mode quantum ring with electric field induced Rashba spin-orbit interaction that is subjected to an in-plane magnetic field and weakly coupled to electron reservoirs. Modelling a ring…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-09 Fateme K. Joibari , Ya. M. Blanter , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

We investigate the ground state current of an isolated hybrid normal/superconducting ring (NS ring), threaded by an Aharonov-Bohm magnetic flux. We calculate the excitation spectrum of the ring for any values of the lengths of the normal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Cayssol , T. Kontos , G. Montambaux

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

We develop a non-perturbative numerical method to study a single electron tunneling through an Aharonov-Bohm ring in the presence of bound, interacting electrons. Inelastic processes and spin-flip scattering are properly taken into account.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Rok Zitko , Janez Bonca

In a recent letter, Yi et al. PRL 78, 3523 (1997), have considered the stability of a Charge Density Wave in a one-dimensional ring, in the presence of an Aharonov-Bohm flux. This comment shows that, in one dimension, the stability of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Montambaux

The nonlinear electronic transport properties of a ballistic Aharonov-Bohm ring are investigated. It is demonstrated how the electronic interaction breaks the phase rigidity in a two-probe mesoscopic device as the voltage bias is increased.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Alexis R. Hernández , Caio H. Lewenkopf

I construct a minimal formalism to describe transport of non separable correlations arising when a superconductor is in contact with several electrodes (being ferromagnetic or normal metal). Transport theory is expressed in terms of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Mélin

In easy-plane magnets, the spin superfluid phase was predicted to facilitate coherent spin transport. So far, experimental evidence remains elusive. In this Letter, we propose an indirect way to sense this effect via the spin superfluid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Yanyan Zhu , Eric Kleinherbers , Leonid Levitov , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We present the overall conductance as well as the circulating currents in individual loops of a Sierpinski gasket (SPG) as we apply bias voltage via the side attached electrodes. SPG being a self-similar structure, its manifestation on loop…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-05 Srilekha Saha , Santanu K. Maiti , S. N. Karmakar

Persistent current in one-dimensional non-superconducting mesoscopic rings threaded by a slowly varying magnetic flux $\phi$ is studied based on the tight-binding model. The behavior of the persistent current is discussed in three aspects:…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-20 Santanu K. Maiti

We investigate persistent charge and spin currents in a ferromagnetic Hatano-Nelson ring with anti-Hermitian intradimer hopping, where non-reciprocal hopping generates a synthetic magnetic flux and drives a non-Hermitian Aharonov-Bohm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Sourav Karmakar , Sudin Ganguly , Santanu K. Maiti

Magneto-transport properties in closed and open loop structures are carefully reviewed within a tight-binding formalism. A novel mesoscopic phenomenon where a non-vanishing current is observed in a conducting loop upon the application of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-13 Paramita Dutta , Santanu K. Maiti

We show theoretically that strong electron coupling to circularly polarized photons in non-singly-connected nanostructures results in the appearance of an artificial gauge field that changes the electron phase. The effect arises from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-05 H. Sigurdsson , O. V. Kibis , I. A. Shelykh

We study the quantum interference effects induced by the Aharonov-Casher phase in asymmetrically confined two-dimensional electron and heavy-hole ring structures systems taking into account the electrically tunable spin-orbit (SO)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-17 M. F. Borunda , Xin Liu , Alexey A. Kovalev , Xiong-Jun Liu , T. Jungwirth , Jairo Sinova

We numerically investigate the effect of Klein tunneling on the Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in graphene rings using a tight-binding model with nearest-neighbor couplings. In order to introduce Klein tunneling into the system, we apply an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-31 Jörg Schelter , Dan Bohr , Björn Trauzettel

Ring structures fabricated from HgTe/HgCdTe quantum wells have been used to study Aharonov-Bohm type conductance oscillations as a function of Rashba spin-orbit splitting strength. We observe non-monotonic phase changes indicating that an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Koenig , A. Tschetschetkin , E. M. Hankiewicz , Jairo Sinova , V. Hock , V. Daumer , M. Schaefer , C. R. Becker , H. Buhmann , L. W. Molenkamp

Using a modified spin-wave approach, we show that in the presence of an inhomogeneous magnetic field or an in plane inhomogeneous electric field a mesoscopic antiferromagnetic Heisenberg ring with integer spin (i.e., a Haldane gap system)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Florian Schuetz , Marcus Kollar , Peter Kopietz

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, which captures the most striking transport properties of the conductive organic polymer $trans$-polyacetylene, provides perhaps the most basic model system supporting topological excitations. The…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-05-12 Eric J. Meier , Fangzhao Alex An , Bryce Gadway

We consider the phase-coherent transport of electrons passing through an Aharonov-Bohm ring while interacting with a tunnel charge in a double quantum dot (representing a charge qubit) which couples symmetrically to both arms of the ring.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-31 Henning Schomerus , John P. Robinson