Dissipationless electron transport in photon-dressed nanostructures

preprint2011arXivOpen access

Abstract

It is shown that the electron coupling to photons in field-dressed nanostructures can result in the ground electron-photon state with a nonzero electric current. Since the current is associated with the ground state, it flows without the Joule heating of the nanostructure and is nondissipative. Such a dissipationless electron transport can be realized in strongly coupled electron-photon systems with the broken time-reversal symmetry - particularly, in quantum rings and chiral nanostructures dressed by circularly polarized photons.

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