Tunneling currents in mesoscopic rings

Persistent currents and currents circulating along an imperfect mesoscopic ring threaded by an external magnetic field are investigated. We study the effect of the Coulomb interaction on a ring with a double-barrier structure within it for two situations: an isolated ring and a ring connected to two...

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Autores principales: Chiappe, G., Davidovich, M.A., Anda, E.V.
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spelling todo:paper_00381101_v40_n1-8_p209_Chiappe2023-10-03T14:49:09Z Tunneling currents in mesoscopic rings Chiappe, G. Davidovich, M.A. Anda, E.V. Algorithms Boundary conditions Electric charge Electric fields Electron tunneling Heterojunctions Magnetic field effects Magnetic fields Statistical methods Thermodynamic stability Bohm-Aharonov effect Charge distribution Coulomb blockade Coulomb interaction Double barrier structure Hamiltonian Kondo effect Lanczos algorithm Magnetic flux Mesoscopic ring Electric currents Persistent currents and currents circulating along an imperfect mesoscopic ring threaded by an external magnetic field are investigated. We study the effect of the Coulomb interaction on a ring with a double-barrier structure within it for two situations: an isolated ring and a ring connected to two reservoirs at different chemical potentials. For the case of the isolated ring the magnetic flux plays the role of the electric field in the standard mesoscopic heterostructures. For the isolated ring the ground state is obtained using a Lanczos algorithm. The persistent current, the total spin of the ground state and the charge distribution are calculated. The current exhibits a bistable behavior. The Coulomb blockade is, to some extent, masked by the Kondo effect. For the ring connected to leads, the presence of the double-barrier structure modifies substantially the interference phenomena shown by perfect rings due to the Bohm-Aharonov effect. The behavior of the current as a function of the magnetic flux is also affected by the Kondo effect. JOUR info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00381101_v40_n1-8_p209_Chiappe
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topic Algorithms
Boundary conditions
Electric charge
Electric fields
Electron tunneling
Heterojunctions
Magnetic field effects
Magnetic fields
Statistical methods
Thermodynamic stability
Bohm-Aharonov effect
Charge distribution
Coulomb blockade
Coulomb interaction
Double barrier structure
Hamiltonian
Kondo effect
Lanczos algorithm
Magnetic flux
Mesoscopic ring
Electric currents
spellingShingle Algorithms
Boundary conditions
Electric charge
Electric fields
Electron tunneling
Heterojunctions
Magnetic field effects
Magnetic fields
Statistical methods
Thermodynamic stability
Bohm-Aharonov effect
Charge distribution
Coulomb blockade
Coulomb interaction
Double barrier structure
Hamiltonian
Kondo effect
Lanczos algorithm
Magnetic flux
Mesoscopic ring
Electric currents
Chiappe, G.
Davidovich, M.A.
Anda, E.V.
Tunneling currents in mesoscopic rings
topic_facet Algorithms
Boundary conditions
Electric charge
Electric fields
Electron tunneling
Heterojunctions
Magnetic field effects
Magnetic fields
Statistical methods
Thermodynamic stability
Bohm-Aharonov effect
Charge distribution
Coulomb blockade
Coulomb interaction
Double barrier structure
Hamiltonian
Kondo effect
Lanczos algorithm
Magnetic flux
Mesoscopic ring
Electric currents
description Persistent currents and currents circulating along an imperfect mesoscopic ring threaded by an external magnetic field are investigated. We study the effect of the Coulomb interaction on a ring with a double-barrier structure within it for two situations: an isolated ring and a ring connected to two reservoirs at different chemical potentials. For the case of the isolated ring the magnetic flux plays the role of the electric field in the standard mesoscopic heterostructures. For the isolated ring the ground state is obtained using a Lanczos algorithm. The persistent current, the total spin of the ground state and the charge distribution are calculated. The current exhibits a bistable behavior. The Coulomb blockade is, to some extent, masked by the Kondo effect. For the ring connected to leads, the presence of the double-barrier structure modifies substantially the interference phenomena shown by perfect rings due to the Bohm-Aharonov effect. The behavior of the current as a function of the magnetic flux is also affected by the Kondo effect.
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author Chiappe, G.
Davidovich, M.A.
Anda, E.V.
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Davidovich, M.A.
Anda, E.V.
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title Tunneling currents in mesoscopic rings
title_short Tunneling currents in mesoscopic rings
title_full Tunneling currents in mesoscopic rings
title_fullStr Tunneling currents in mesoscopic rings
title_full_unstemmed Tunneling currents in mesoscopic rings
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