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Quantum Beating in Ring Conductance: Observation of Spin Chiral States and Berry's phase

M. J. Yang, C. H. Yang, K. A. Cheng, Y. B. Lyanda-Geller

cond-mat.mes-hallarXiv:cond-mat/0208260

Abstract

Using singly connected rings with a collimating contact to current leads, we have observed the spin quantum beating in the Aharonov-Bohm conductance oscillations. We demonstrate that the beating is a result of the superposition of two independent interference patterns associated with two orthogonal spin chiral states arising from intrinsic spin-orbit interactions. Our work provides the conclusive evidence of the spin Berry's phase in the conductance of quantum rings.

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