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In the past few decades, major advances in nanofabrication techniques have resulted in the creation of tunable few-electron nanoscale quantum rings with unique topology and the energy spectrum. These rings display many remarkable effects in magnetotransport and optical spectroscopy that were predicted earlier in theoretical studies. Having external control over the size and the number of electrons in such a ring offers intriguing possibilities to study the interplay between the confinement and the electron-electron interaction. Here we review the physics of quantum rings in a few novel situations and unravel some new physical phenomena involving these rings that go beyond our current understandings of physics derived from conventional nanoscale quantum rings.
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Chakraborty, T., Manaselyan, A.K., Barseghyan, M.G. (2018). Electronic, Magnetic and Optical Properties of Quantum Rings in Novel Systems. In: Fomin, V. (eds) Physics of Quantum Rings. NanoScience and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95159-1_11
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