Optically induced Aharonov-Bohm effect in mesoscopic rings

• Main Authors: Sigurdsson, H., Kibis, O. V., Shelykh, Ivan
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Physics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/103622; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/24550
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We show theoretically that strong electron coupling to circularly polarized photons in non-singly-connected nanostructures results in the appearance of an artificial gauge field that changes the electron phase. The effect arises from the breaking of time-reversal symmetry and is analogous to the wel...