Mutual Inductance and Selfinductance in Mesoscopic Systems
E. Zipper, J. Dajka and M. Szopa
Institute of Physics, University of Silesia Uniwersytecka 4, 40-007 Katowice, Poland
Received: March 7, 2002; in final form May 23, 2002
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The role played by the magnetostatic interaction in mesoscopic multichannel systems is discussed. We show that the interaction of currents from different channels, when taken in the selfconsistent mean field approximation, leads to selfinductance terms in the Hamiltonian producing an internal magnetic flux. Such multichannel systems can exhibit spontaneous flux or flux expulsion. The dependence of these phenomena on the parameters of the system is discussed.
DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.102.419
PACS numbers: 73.23.Ra, 73.23.--b