Current characteristics of mesoscopic rings in quantum Smoluchowski regime

Current-flux characteristics in mesoscopic non-superconducting rings.

We propose four different mechanisms responsible for the paramagnetic or diamagnetic persistent currents in normal metal rings and determine the circumstances for changes of the current from paramagnetic to diamagnetic and vice versa. This might qualitatively reproduce the experimental results of Bluhm et al (2009 Phys. Rev. Lett. 102 136802).

Mesoscopic Effects in the Quantum Hall Regime

Abstract. We report results of a study of (integer) quantum Hall transitions in a single or multiple Landau levels for non-interacting electrons in disordered two-dimensional systems, obtained by projecting a tight-binding Hamiltonian to corresponding magnetic subbands. In finite-size systems, we find that mesoscopic effects often dominate, leading to apparent non-universal scaling behaviour in...

Spin Hall current driven by quantum interferences in mesoscopic Rashba rings.

We propose an all-electrical nanostructure where pure spin current is induced in the transverse voltage probes attached to a quantum-coherent ballistic one-dimensional ring when unpolarized charge current is injected through its longitudinal leads. Tuning of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling in a semiconductor heterostructure hosting the ring generates quasiperiodic oscillations of the predicted s...

Mesoscopic fluctuations in quantum dots in the Kondo regime

Properties of the Kondo effect in quantum dots depend sensitively on the coupling parameters and so on the realization of the quantum dot—the Kondo temperature itself becomes a mesoscopic quantity. Assuming chaotic dynamics in the dot, we use random matrix theory to calculate the distribution of both the Kondo temperature and the conductance in the Coulomb blockade regime. We study two experime...

Quantum Transport: Persistent Current in Mesoscopic Loops