Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1545531 Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures 2010 9 Pages PDF
Abstract

We present a scattering-matrix approach to electron transport through a mesoscopic ring pierced by a magnetic field, containing a magnetic impurity plus an arbitrary number of defects. Our approach entails a suitable extension of the ★‐product★‐product composition rule for the scattering matrix in quasi-one-dimensional systems. As an application of the method, we analyze the Aharonov–Bohm oscillations of the transmission coefficients as the strength or the number of the defects is varied. The method can be straightforwardly generalized to periodic arrays of Aharonov–Bohm rings.

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