I. A. Kokurin, “Electronic states and persistent currents in nanowire quantum ring”, Fizika i Tekhnika Poluprovodnikov, 2018, Volume 52, Issue 4,Page 486

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XXV International Symposium ''Nanostructures: Physics and Technology'', Saint Petersburg, June 26-30, 2017
Spin Related Phenomena in Nanostructures

Electronic states and persistent currents in nanowire quantum ring

I. A. Kokurin^ab

^a Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Mordovia State University, 430005 Saransk, Russia
^b Ioffe Institute, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia

Abstract: A new model of a quantum ring defined inside a nanowire is proposed. The one-particle Hamiltonian for electron in [111]-oriented nanowire quantum ring is constructed taking into account both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling. The energy levels as a function of magnetic field are found using the exact numerical diagonalization. The persistent currents (both charge and spin) are calculated. The specificity of spin-orbit coupling and arising anticrossings in energy spectrum lead to unusual features in persistent current behavior. The variation of magnetic field or carrier concentration by means of gates can lead to pure spin persistent current with the charge current being zero.

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