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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

We obtain and analyze the effect of electron-electron Coulomb interaction on the time dependent current flowing through a mesoscopic system connected to biased semi-infinite leads. We assume the contact is gradually switched on in time and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-15 Valeriu Moldoveanu , Andrei Manolescu , Chi-Shung Tang , Vidar Gudmundsson

We develop a theory for charge and spin current between two canted magnetic leads flowing through a quantum dot with an arbitrary local interaction. For a noncollinear magnetic configuration, we calculate equilibrium and nonequilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-16 Silas Hoffman , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

The persistent current in a clean mesoscopic ring with ballistic electron motion is calculated. The particle dynamics inside a ring is assumed to be chaotic due to scattering at the surface irregularities of atomic size. This allows one to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. V. Samokhin

A quantum antidot, a submicron depletion region in a two-dimensional electron system, has been actively studied in the past two decades, providing a powerful tool for understanding quantum Hall systems. In a perpendicular magnetic field,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. -S. Sim , M. Kataoka , C. J. B. Ford

We study the spin edge states, induced by the combined effect of spin-orbit interaction (SOI) and hard-wall confining potential, in a two-dimensional electron system, exposed to a perpendicular magnetic field. We find an exact solution of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-29 V. L. Grigoryan , A. Matos Abiague , S. M. Badalyan

We study the non-equilibrium steady states in a closed system consisting of interacting particles obeying exclusion principle with quenched hopping rate. Cluster mean field approach is utilized to theoretically analyze the system dynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-03 Bipasha Pal , Arvind Kumar Gupta

A careful study on the mesoscopic PC in a Luttinger liquid ring is carried out. It is shown that discreteness plays an important role in calculating the PC caused by the magnetic flux. At zero temperature, the current is shown to be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Mun Dae Kim , Sam Young Cho , Chul Koo Kim , Kyun Nahm

Pumping of charge current by spin dynamics in the presence of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction is theoretically studied. Considering disordered electron, the exchange coupling and spin-orbit interactions are treated perturbatively. It is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jun-ichiro Ohe , Akihito Takeuchi , Gen Tatara

We analytically study the magnetic response of persistent current (PC) in normally non-interacting mesoscopic rings of bimodal potential with nearest neighboring interactions (t) and alternating site energies. It is shown that a ring of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-11 J. W. Ding , X. H. Yan , B. G. Wang , D. Y. Xing

We develop a theory for the nonequilibrium coherent transport through a mesoscopic region, based on the nonequilibrium Green function technique. The theory requires the weak coupling between the central mesoscopic region and the multiple…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Yu Zhu , Tsung-han Lin , Qing-feng Sun

Using the recent reformulation for the Eliashberg theory of superconductivity in terms of a classical interacting Bloch spin chain model, rigorous upper and lower bounds on the critical temperature $T_c$ are obtained for the $\gamma$ model…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Michael K. -H. Kiessling , Boris L. Altshuler , Emil A. Yuzbashyan

The coupling between a current and a domain wall is examined. In the presence of a finite current and the absence of a potential which breaks the translational symmetry, there is a perfect transfer of angular momentum from the conduction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 S. E. Barnes , S. Maekawa

The existence of spin-currents in absence of any driving external fields is commonly considered an exotic phenomenon appearing only in quantum materials, such as topological insulators. We demonstrate instead that equilibrium spin currents…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-20 Andrea Droghetti , Ivan Rungger , Angel Rubio , Ilya V. Tokatly

In this work, we study persistent current in a mesoscopic cylinder subjected to both longitudinal and transverse magnetic fluxes. A simple tight-binding model is used to describe the system, where all the calculations are performed exactly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-29 Santanu K. Maiti , F. Aeenehvand

We show that at low temperatures T an inhomogeneous radial magnetic field with magnitude B gives rise to a persistent magnetization current around a mesoscopic ferromagnetic Heisenberg ring. Under optimal conditions this spin current can be…

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

The excited states of a charged particle interacting with the quantized electromagnetic field and an external potential all decay, but such a particle should have a true ground state--one that minimizes the energy and satisfies the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Marcel Griesemer , Elliott H. Lieb , Michael Loss

Current fluctuations can provide additional insight into quantum transport in mesoscopic systems. The present work is carried out for the fluctuation properties of transport through a pair of coupled quantum dots which are connected with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-02 JunYan Luo , Xin-Qi Li , YiJing Yan

We prove that under certain conditions, phase separation is enough to sustain a regime in which current flows along the concentration gradient, a phenomenon which is known in the literature as \textit{uphill diffusion}. The model we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Roberto Boccagna

The thermodynamic uncertainty relation provides a universal lower bound on the product of entropy production and the fluctuations of any current. While proven for Markov dynamics on a discrete set of states and for overdamped Langevin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-24 Hyun-Myung Chun , Lukas P. Fischer , Udo Seifert