Designing a symmetry-protected molecular device

CA Büsser, AE Feiguin - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2012 - APS
Realizing a quantum transistor built of molecules or quantum dots has been one of the most
ambitious challenges in nanotechnology. Even though remarkable progress has been …

Electron transport in a two-terminal Aharonov–Bohm ring with impurities

MA Kokoreva, VA Margulis, MA Pyataev - Physica E: Low-dimensional …, 2011 - Elsevier
Electron transport in a two-terminal Aharonov–Bohm ring with a few short-range scatterers is
investigated. An analytical expression for the conductance as a function of the electron …

Impurity-modified Fano effect in a double quantum dot Aharonov–Bohm interferometer

W Gong, C Jiang - Journal of Applied Physics, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
The impurity-related electron transport properties of a double quantum dot Aharonov–Bohm
interferometer are theoretically studied, by considering impurities to side couple to the …

Electron transport through an extended nano-ring in presence of magnetic field: An analytical approach

H Rabani, M Mardaani - Solid state sciences, 2012 - Elsevier
We analytically describe the influence of magnetic field on the electronic transport properties
of an extended nano-ring by using Green's function technique in the nearest neighbor tight …

Magnetoconductance switching in an array of oval quantum dots

C Morfonios, D Buchholz, P Schmelcher - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2009 - APS
Employing oval-shaped quantum billiards connected by quantum wires as the building
blocks of a linear quantum-dot array, we calculate the ballistic magnetoconductance in the …

Rashba-induced spin accumulation in a quantum wire with an impurity

S Zhang, W Gong, G Wei, A Du - Journal of Applied Physics, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, we study the properties of the Rashba-induced spin accumulation in a quantum
wire, by considering an impurity in this system. First, in the zero-impurity case, the …

Even-odd parity oscillations in spin polarization of a quantum dot array

XT An, JJ Liu - Applied Physics Letters, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
We propose a quantum dot (QD) array device which contains a bridge coupling between two
leads. Due to the quantum interference and the Rashba spin-orbit interaction, the spin of the …

Electronic transmission through a ladder with a single side-attached impurity

R Farchioni, G Grosso, GP Parravicini - The European Physical Journal B, 2011 - Springer
We study the electronic transmission of a model system composed by two coupled chains
with an impurity attached to one of them. Analytical espressions for the transmittivity and for …

Analytical and numerical study of quantum transport in an array of nanorings: A case study with double rings

F Khoeini, F Khoeini - Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and …, 2013 - Elsevier
We present an analytical method to obtain an expression for electron transmission through
an array of disordered nanorings (ADNRs) sandwiched between two semi-infinite metallic …

Magneto-transport in a binary alloy ring

P Dutta, SK Maiti, SN Karmakar - Physics Letters A, 2012 - Elsevier
Magneto-transport properties are investigated in a binary alloy ring subjected to an
Aharonov–Bohm (AB) flux ϕ within a single-band non-interacting tight-binding framework. In …