Periodicity of the Aharonov-Bohm effect in normal-metal rings
- 13 January 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 56 (2) , 189-192
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.56.189
Abstract
We study the Aharonov-Bohm effect in single normal-metal rings and show that averaging the conductance over many energies is equivalent to ensemble averaging. Thus raising the temperature T above a crossover changes the flux periodicity of magnetoresistance oscillations from h/e to h/2e. is determined by an energy correlation range, hD/. The persistence of the h/e oscillations to high fields is explained.
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