Mesoscopic Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in metallic rings

Details Mesoscopic Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in metallic rings Mesoscopic Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in metallic rings

2003-12-22

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312577v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

16 pages, 4 figures, to appear in proceedings of NATO/Euresco Conference "Fundamental Problems of Mesoscopic Physics: Interact

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We study the amplitude of mesoscopic Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in quasi-one-dimensional (Q1D) diffusive rings. We consider first the low-temperature limit of a fully coherent sample. The variance of oscillation harmonics is calculated as a function of the length of the leads attaching the ring to reservoirs. We further analyze the regime of relatively high temperatures, when the dephasing due to electron-electron interaction suppresses substantially the oscillations. We show that the dephasing length L_phi^AB governing the damping factor exp(-2pi R /L_phi^AB) of the oscillations is parametrically different from the common dephasing length for the Q1D geometry. This is due to the fact that the dephasing is governed by energy transfers determined by the ring circumference 2pi R, making L_phi^AB R-dependent.

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