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Quantum pumping: The charge transported due to a translation of a scatterer

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-10 v3

Abstract

The amount of charge which is pushed by a moving scatterer is dQ=GdXdQ = -G dX, where dXdX is the displacement of the scatterer. The question is what is GG. Does it depend on the transmission g0g_0 of the scatterer? Does the answer depend on whether the system is open (with leads attached to reservoirs) or closed? In the latter case: what are the implications of having ``quantum chaos" and/or coupling to to the environment? The answers to these questions illuminate some fundamental aspects of the theory of quantum pumping. For the analysis we take a network (graph) as a model system, and use the Kubo formula approach.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0407073,
  title  = {Quantum pumping: The charge transported due to a translation of a scatterer},
  author = {Doron Cohen and Tsampikos Kottos and Holger Schanz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0407073},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 figures, minor changes, to be published in PRE (Rapid)