SPONTANEOUS AHARONOV-CASHER EFFECT OF NEUTRAL HARD-CORE BOSONS IN ONE-DIMENSIONAL MESOSCOPIC RINGS

Using a tight-binding model Hamiltonian and applying the Jordan-Wigner transformation, we have investigated the Aharonov-Casher (AC) effect for many neutral hard-core bosons in one-dimensional (1D) mesoscopic r ings with the self-induced AC phase included. The total energy and the persistent fluxon current are analytically derived for 1D perfect lat tices. More importantly, it is suggested that, in the absence of the e xternal AC flux, the self-sustained AC flux state could be the ground state of a system with weak disorder. The possibility of experimental observations is briefly discussed.