Abstract
We calculate the average persistent current in a normal conducting, mesoscopic ring in the diffusive regime. In the presence of magnetic impurities, a contribution to the persistent current is identified, which is related to fluctuations in the electron spin density. Assuming a spin-flip scattering rate which is comparable to the Thouless energy E c and low temperature, this new contribution to the persistent current is of the order I ∼ E 2c (kTφ0), which is considerably larger than the persistent current induced by the electron-electron interaction.
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