Persistent currents in mesoscopic rings and conformal invariance

Details Persistent currents in mesoscopic rings and conformal invariance Persistent currents in mesoscopic rings and conformal invariance

1998-06-08

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9806105v1

Eur. Phys. J. B5, 787-792 (1998)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

18 pages, Latex with epsf, including 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1007/s100510050503

The effect of point defects on persistent currents in mesoscopic systems is studied in a simple tight-binding model. Using an analogy with the treatment of the critical quantum Ising chain with defects, conformal invariance techniques are employed to relate the persitent current amplitude to the Hamiltonian spectrum jsut above the Fermi energy. From this, the dependence of the current on the magnetic flux is found exactly for a ring with one or two point defects. The effect of an aperiodic modulation of the ring, generated through a binary substitution sequence, on the persistent current is also studied. The flux-dependence of the current is found to vary remarkably between the Fibonacci and the Thue-Morse sequences.

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