Violation of Onsager symmetry for a ballistic channel Coulomb coupled to a quantum ring

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Published 31 August 2009 Europhysics Letters Association
, , Citation B. Szafran et al 2009 EPL 87 47002 DOI 10.1209/0295-5075/87/47002

0295-5075/87/4/47002

Abstract

We investigate a scattering of electron which is injected individually into an empty ballistic channel containing a cavity that is Coulomb coupled to a quantum ring charged with a single electron. We solve the time-dependent Schrödinger equation for the electron pair with an exact account for the electron-electron correlation. Absorption of energy and angular momentum by the quantum ring is not an even function of the external magnetic field. As a consequence we find that the electron backscattering probability is asymmetric in the magnetic field and thus violates Onsager symmetry.

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10.1209/0295-5075/87/47002