168 research outputs found
Phase-Controlled Force and Magnetization Oscillations in Superconducting Ballistic Nanowires
The emergence of superconductivity-induced phase-controlled forces in the
(0.01-0.1) nN range, and of magnetization oscillations, in nanowire junctions,
is discussed. A giant magnetic response to applied weak magnetic fields, is
predicted in the ballistic Josephson junction formed by a superconducting tip
and a surface, bridged by a normal metal nanowire where Andreev states form.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Ballistic electronic transport in Quantum Cables
We studied theoretically ballistic electronic transport in a proposed
mesoscopic structure - Quantum Cable. Our results demonstrated that Qauntum
Cable is a unique structure for the study of mesoscopic transport. As a
function of Fermi energy, Ballistic conductance exhibits interesting stepwise
features. Besides the steps of one or two quantum conductance units (),
conductance plateaus of more than two quantum conductance units can also be
expected due to the accidental degeneracies (crossings) of subbands. As
structure parameters is varied, conductance width displays oscillatory
properties arising from the inhomogeneous variation of energy difference
betweeen adjoining transverse subbands. In the weak coupling limits,
conductance steps of height becomes the first and second plateaus for
the Quantum Cable of two cylinder wires with the same width.Comment: 11 pages, 5 figure
Three-dimensional oscillator in magnetic field: the de Haas-van Alphen effect in mesoscopic systems
The theoretical investigation of the cluster de Haas - van Alphen (dHvA)
oscillations in three-dimensional systems performed for the first time.
Applying a three-dimensional oscillator model to systems with electron numbers
we predict distinctive size effects: the dHvA oscillations
can be observed only within a certain temperature range determined by ; the
lower size limit for is ; the amount of the dHvA oscillations
is reduced with decreasing which is accompanied by stretching the period of
the oscillations.Comment: 14 pages, 6 figure
Aharonov-Bohm effect and plasma oscillations in superconducting tubes and rings
Low frequency plasma oscillations in superconducting tubes are considered.
The emergence of two different dimensionality regimes of plasma oscillations in
tubes, exhibiting a crossover from one-dimensional to two-dimensional behavior,
depending on whether or , where is the plasmon wave
vector and is the radius of the tube, is discussed. The Aharonov-Bohm
effect pertaining to plasma oscillations in superconducting tubes and rings,
resulting in an oscillatory behavior of the plasmon frequency as a function of
the magnetic flux, with a flux quantum period (analog of the
Little-Parks effect), is studied. The amplitude of the oscillations is
proportional to , where is the superconducting coherence
length.Comment: 18 pages, 4 figure
Energetics, forces, and quantized conductance in jellium modeled metallic nanowires
Energetics and quantized conductance in jellium modeled nanowires are
investigated using the local density functional based shell correction method,
extending our previous study of uniform in shape wires [C. Yannouleas and U.
Landman, J. Phys. Chem. B 101, 5780 (1997)] to wires containing a variable
shaped constricted region. The energetics of the wire (sodium) as a function of
the length of the volume conserving, adiabatically shaped constriction leads to
formation of self selecting magic wire configurations. The variations in the
energy result in oscillations in the force required to elongate the wire and
are directly correlated with the stepwise variations of the conductance of the
nanowire in units of 2e^2/h. The oscillatory patterns in the energetics and
forces, and the correlated stepwise variation in the conductance are shown,
numerically and through a semiclassical analysis, to be dominated by the
quantized spectrum of the transverse states at the narrowmost part of the
constriction in the wire.Comment: Latex/Revtex, 11 pages with 5 Postscript figure
Coherent quantum phenomena in mesoscopic metallic conductors (Review Article)
The quantum coherent phenomena in mesoscopic cylindrical metallic conductors have been considered. Pure double-and single-connected normal samples were placed in a longitudinal magnetic field, which generated interference phenomena depending on the magnetic flux through the cross-section of the conductor. The period of the induced oscillations is equal to the flux quantum hc/e of the normal metal. The quantum states are formed in the structures by collisions of the electrons with the dielectric boundary of the sample. The magnetic flux is included in the expression for the spectrum of quasiparticles. The proximity effect and its influence on the modification of the spectrum of quantum coherent phenomena have been investigated. The behavior of cylindrical samples consisting of a superconducting (S) metal with a deposited thin pure normal (N) metal layer has been analyzed. In this structure the electrons are localized in a well bounded by a dielectric on one side and by a superconductor on the other. The specific feature of the generated quantized Andreev levels is that in the varying field H (or temperature T) each of the levels in the well can coincide periodically with the chemical potential of the metal. As a result, the state of the system experiences strong degeneracy and the density of states exhibits resonance spikes of the energy of the NS sample. This makes a significant contribution to the magnetic moment. A theory of the reentrant effect for NS structures has been developed, which interprets the anomalous behavior of the magnetic susceptibility of such structures as a function of the magnetic field and temperatures
Berry's Phases of Ground States of Interacting Spin-One Bosons: Chains of Monopoles and Monosegments
We study Berry's connection potentials of many-body ground states of spin-one
bosons with antiferromagnetic interactions in adiabatically varying magnetic
fields. We find that Berry's connection potentials are generally determined by,
instead of usual singular monopoles, linearly positioned monosegments each of
which carries one unit of topological charge; in the absence of a magnetic
field gradient this distribution of monosegments becomes a linear chain of
monopoles. Consequently, Berry's phases consist of a series of step functions
of magnetic fields; a magnetic field gradient causes rounding of these
step-functions. We also calculate Berry's connection fields, profiles of
monosegments and show that the total topological charge is conserved in a
parameter space
Persistent currents, flux quantization, and magnetomotive forces in normal metals and superconductors (Review Article)
The notion of persistent current comes back to orbital currents in normal metals, semiconductors and even insulators displaying diamagnetic behavior in weak magnetic fields, but came to focus at the discovery of current persistence and magnetic flux quantization at large fields in atomically big but macroscopically small (mesoscopic) objects. The phenomenon bears much similarity with supercurrents in superconductive metals. We will review progress in developing of our understanding of the physical and technological aspects of this phenomenon. The exact solution for currents, magnetic moments and magnetomotive forces (torques) in crossed magnetic fields are presented. Time-dependent phenomena in crossed magnetic and electric fields, and in possibility of spontaneous persistent currents and of work extraction from static and dynamic quantum states are discussed
Edge effects in graphene nanostructures: I. From multiple reflection expansion to density of states
We study the influence of different edge types on the electronic density of
states of graphene nanostructures. To this end we develop an exact expansion
for the single particle Green's function of ballistic graphene structures in
terms of multiple reflections from the system boundary, that allows for a
natural treatment of edge effects. We first apply this formalism to calculate
the average density of states of graphene billiards. While the leading term in
the corresponding Weyl expansion is proportional to the billiard area, we find
that the contribution that usually scales with the total length of the system
boundary differs significantly from what one finds in semiconductor-based,
Schr\"odinger type billiards: The latter term vanishes for armchair and
infinite mass edges and is proportional to the zigzag edge length, highlighting
the prominent role of zigzag edges in graphene. We then compute analytical
expressions for the density of states oscillations and energy levels within a
trajectory based semiclassical approach. We derive a Dirac version of
Gutzwiller's trace formula for classically chaotic graphene billiards and
further obtain semiclassical trace formulae for the density of states
oscillations in regular graphene cavities. We find that edge dependent
interference of pseudospins in graphene crucially affects the quantum spectrum.Comment: to be published in Phys. Rev.
Calorimetric tunneling study of heat generation in metal-vacuum-metal tunnel junction
We have proposed novel calorimetric tunneling (CT) experiment allowing exact
determination of heat generation (or heat sinking) in individual tunnel
junction (TJ) electrodes which opens new possibilities in the field of design
and development of experimental techniques for science and technology. Using
such experiment we have studied the process of heat generation in normal-metal
electrodes of the vacuum-barrier tunnel junction (VBTJ). The results show there
exists dependence of the mutual redistribution of the heat on applied bias
voltage and the direction of tunnel current, although the total heat generated
in tunnel process is equal to Joule heat, as expected. Moreover, presented
study indicates generated heat represents the energy of non-equilibrium
quasiparticles coming from inelastic electron processes accompanying the
process of elastic tunneling.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, LaTe
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