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Symmetry-induced even/odd parity in charge and heat pumping

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2021-05-26 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons Quantum Physics

Abstract

It is shown that the presence of discrete symmetries in Floquet systems connected to metallic reservoirs imprints a definite parity on the charge and heat pumping as a function of the reservoir's chemical potential, μ\mu. In particular, when particle-hole symmetry (PHS) holds, the pumping of charge (heat) is an odd (even) function of μ\mu. Whereas, if only the product of PHS and parity symmetry is present, pumping of charge (heat) is even (odd) in μ\mu. Our results also extend to the presence of other unitary symmetries and provide a simple criterion for reversing (or maintaining) the direction of the flow. We illustrate our findings using two variants of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model under a time-periodic perturbation.

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@article{arxiv.2012.11970,
  title  = {Symmetry-induced even/odd parity in charge and heat pumping},
  author = {Miguel A. N. Araújo and Pedro Ninhos and Pedro Ribeiro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.11970},
  year   = {2021}
}

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