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Phase measurements in open and closed Aharonov-Bohm interferometers

A. Aharony, O. Entin-Wohlman, Y. Imry

cond-mat.mes-hallarXiv:cond-mat/0412027

Abstract

Mesoscopic Aharonov-Bohm interferometers have been used in attempts to measure the transmission phase of a quantum dot which is placed on one arm of the interferometer. Here we review theoretical results for the conductance through such interferometers, for both the closed (two-terminal) and open (multi-terminal) cases. In addition to earlier results for the Coulomb blockade regime, we present new results for the strongly correlated Kondo regime, and test the consistency of the two-slit analysis of some data from open interferometer experiments.

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