Spontaneous Persistent Currents in Mesoscopic Rings |
| E. Zipper and M. Szopa Instytut Fizyki, Uniwersytet Śląski, Uniwersytecka 4, 40-007 Katowice, Poland |
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| Persistent currents in mesoscopic systems made of a very clean metal and with nearly flat Fermi surface are studied. It is shown that the inclusion of the orbital magnetic interaction between electrons can lead to spontaneous currents (spontaneous fluxes) and to quantized flux trapping if the number of interacting electrons is large enough: The energy of the system is discussed and the self-consistent formulas for the spontaneous flux and for the quantized flux in the system is derived. The influence of the spin on the presented phenomena is discussed. |
| DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.87.79 PACS numbers: 73.20.Dx |