Quantization of persistent currents in quantum dot at strong magnetic fields

Y. Avishai and M. Kohmoto

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1993, vol. 200, issue 1, 504-511

Abstract: We investigate equilibrium electron currents and magnetization in an ideal two-dimensional disc of radius R placed in a strong magnetic field H. The most striking results emerge when the conditions for the existence of edge and bulk states are met, namely RaH = (h̵c/eH)12. When the Fermi energy is locked on a Landau level, the current as a function of electron density is quantized in units of (eh)(h̵ωc/2), where ωc is the cyclotron frequency. We argue that this effect survives against weak disorder. It is also shown that the persistent current has an approximately periodic dependence on 1/H.

Date: 1993
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(93)90553-G

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