Abstract
We investigate the effect of electron–electron interactions on Aharonov–Bohm (AB) current oscillations in nanorings formed by a chain of metallic quantum dots. We demonstrate that electron–electron interactions cause electron dephasing thereby suppressing the amplitude of AB oscillations at all temperatures down to T = 0 . The crossover between thermal and quantum dephasing is found to be controlled by the ring perimeter. Our predictions can be directly tested in future experiments.
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