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We consider the problem of a persistent current in a one-dimensional mesoscopic ring with the electrons coupled by a spin exchange to a magnetic impurity. We show that this problem can be mapped onto an integrable model with a quadratic dispersion (with the latter property allowing for an unambiguous definition of the persistent current). We have solved the model exactly by a Bethe ansatz and found that the current is insensitive to the presence of the impurity. We conjecture that this result holds for any integrable quantum impurity model with an electronic dispersionε(k) that is an even function ofk.
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Nilsson, J., Eckle, HP. & Johannesson, H. Exact results for the persistent current in an aharonov-bohm ring with a quantum impurity. Czech J Phys 56, 1251–1256 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10582-006-0433-7
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