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The existence of persistent currents in a mesoscopic ring in presence of disorder was suggested by Biittiker, Imry and Landauer [1]. However a complete theoretical approach, easy in the case of one-dimensional (ID) system [2], is very difficult to extend to a real three-dimensional (3D) system with disorder and at finite temperature [3]. The direct observation of such currents would give very important informations for the understanding of such mesoscopic systems.
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Benoit, A., Mailly, D., El-Khatib, M., Perrier, P. (1991). Search for Persistent Currents. In: Kramer, B. (eds) Quantum Coherence in Mesoscopic Systems. NATO ASI Series, vol 254. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3698-1_15
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