Abstract
We have measured the low-temperature magnetization response of isolated mesoscopic copper rings to a slowly varying magnetic flux. At sufficiently low temperature, the total magnetization response oscillates as a function of the enclosed magnetic flux on the scale of half of a flux quantum. The amplitude of the oscillatory moment is ≊1.2× and decreases exponentially with increasing temperature on the scale of the correlation energy =hD/(2L≊80 mK. This is evidence for a flux-periodic persistent current in each ring of average value 3×e/L.
- Received 26 January 1990
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.64.2074
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