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Persistent Currents in Mesoscopic Hubbard Rings with Spin-Orbit Interaction

Satoshi Fujimoto, Norio Kawakami

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/9309012

Abstract

The effect of spin-orbit interaction on persistent currents in mesoscopic Hubbard rings threaded by an Aharonov-Bohm flux is investigated putting stress on the orbital magnetism. The non-perturbative treatment of the spin-orbit interaction developed by Meir et al. is combined with the Bethe ansatz solution to deal with this problem exactly. We find that the interplay of spin-orbit interaction and electron-electron interaction plays a crucial role, bringing about some new effects on the orbital magnetism.

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