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Adiabatic charge pumping through a dot at the junction of N quantum wires

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

We study adiabatic charge pumping through a quantum dot placed at the junction of NN quantum wires. We explicitly map out the pattern of pumped charge as a function of the time-varying tunneling parameters coupling the wires to the dot and the phase between any two time varying parameters controlling the shape of the dot. We find that with N2N-2 time-independent well-coupled leads, the maximum pumped charge in the remaining two leads is strongly suppressed with increasing NN, leading to the possibility of tuning of the pumped charge, by modulating the coupling of the N2N-2 leads.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0608267,
  title  = {Adiabatic charge pumping through a dot at the junction of N quantum wires},
  author = {Shamik Banerjee and Anamitra Mukherjee and Sumathi Rao and Arijit Saha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0608267},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages, 6 figures, version to be published in PRB