Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2007-07-22
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 20 (2008) 025206
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
19 pages, 6 figures
Scientific paper
10.1088/0953-8984/20/02/025206
We study electron transport in a normal-metal ring modeled by the tight binding lattice Hamiltonian, coupled to two electron reservoirs. First, Buttiker's model of incorporating inelastic scattering, hence decoherence and dissipation, has been extended by connecting each site of the open ring to one-dimensional leads for uniform dephasing in the ring threaded by magnetic flux. We show with this extension conductance remains symmetric under flux reversal, and Aharonov-Bohm oscillations with changing magnetic flux reduce to zero as a function of the decoherence parameter, thus indicating dephasing in the ring. This extension enables us to find local chemical potential profiles of the ring sites with changing magnetic flux and the decoherence parameter analogously to the four probe measurement. The local electrochemical potential oscillates in the ring sites because of quantum-interference effects. It predicts that measured four-point resistance also fluctuates and even can be negative. Then we point out the role of the closed ring's electronic eigenstates in the persistent current around Fano antiresonances of an asymmetric open ring for both ideal leads and tunnel barriers. Determining the real eigenvalues of the non-Hermitian effective Hamiltonian of the ring, we show that there exist discrete bound states in the continuum of scattering states for the asymmetric ring even in the absence of magnetic flux. Our approach involves quantum Langevin equations and non-equilibrium Green's functions.
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