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TT 35: Transport: Nanoelectronics I - Quantum Dots, Wires, Point Contacts 3
TT 35.9: Talk
Thursday, February 28, 2008, 16:15–16:30, H 3010
Interaction Effects on Transport through an Electronic Mach-Zehnder Interferometer — •Vitaly Golovach and Florian Marquardt — Department of Physics, Arnold-Sommerfeld-Center for Theoretical Physics, and Center for NanoScience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Theresienstrasse 37, 80333 Munich, Germany
We study theoretically transport through an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer in the presence of Coulomb interaction inside the interferometer, using a discrete wave-packet model. We find that the mutual capacitance between the arms of the interferometer leads to a suppression of the visibility of the Aharonov-Bohm oscillations at a large source-drain bias Δµ≫ℏ vF/L, where L is the length of the arms and vF is the electron drift speed. Our numerical simulations indicate that the visibility of the Aharonov-Bohm oscillations is a non-analytic function of the mutual capacitance strength, in the limit Δµ→∞.