In order to investigate the effects of interference and interaction in adiabatic pumping, we consider an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometer with a quantum dot embedded either in one or in both arms. We employ a real-time formalism and we perform an expansion both in the tunnel-coupling strengths between dot and leads and in the pumping frequency, taking into account the Coulomb interaction non perturbatively. We find that pumping in a single-dot AB interferometer has a peristaltic but phase-coherent character. In a double-dot AB interferometer, we find a pumping mechanism that relies purely on quantum mechanical interference and has no classical counterpart.
@article{arxiv.0908.4542,
title = {Interference and interaction effects in adiabatic pumping through quantum dots},
author = {Bastian Hiltscher and Michele Governale and Jürgen König},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.4542},
year = {2010}
}