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Observation of Persistent Currents in Mesoscopic Connected Rings

W. Rabaud, L. Saminadayar, D. Mailly, K. Hasselbach, A. Benoit, B. Etienne

cond-mat.mes-hallarXiv:cond-mat/0007396

Abstract

We report measurements of the low temperature magnetic response of a line of 16 GaAs/GaAlAs connected mesoscopic rings whose total length is much larger than lϕ. Using an on-chip micro-squid technology, we have measured a periodic response, with period h/e, corresponding to persistent currents in the rings of typical amplitude 0.40 0.08 nA per ring. Direct comparison with measurements on the same rings but isolated is presented.

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