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We introduce a systematic procedure based on optimal control theory to address the full counting statistics of particle transport in a stochastic system. Our approach enhances the performance of a Thouless pump in the non-adiabatic regime…

We demonstrate nonadiabatic Thouless pumping of electrons in trans-polyacetylene in the framework of Floquet engineering using first-principles theory. We identify the regimes in which the quantized pump is operative with respect to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-16 Ruiyi Zhou , Dillon C. Yost , Yosuke Kanai

In a quantum charge pump, the periodic variation of two parameters that affect the phase of the electronic wavefunction causes the flow of a direct current. The operating mechanism of a quantum pump is based on quantum interference, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Saar Rahav , Piet W. Brouwer

We investigate the effect of time-dependent cyclic-adiabatic driving on the charge transport in quantum junction. We propose a nonequilibrium Greens function formalism to study statistics of the charge pumped (at zero bias) through the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-03 Hari Kumar Yadalam , Upendra Harbola

We study charge pumping when a combination of static potentials and potentials oscillating with a time period T is applied in a one-dimensional system of non-interacting electrons. We consider both an infinite system using the Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Abhiram Soori , Diptiman Sen

We investigate electron transport through a finite two dimensional mesoscopic periodic potential, consisting of an array of lateral quantum dots with electron density controlled by a global top gate. We observe a transition from an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Neal E. Staley , Nirat Ray , Marc A. Kastner , Micah P. Hanson , Arthur C. Gossard

We study the transport through a quantum dot subject to a randomly fluctuating potential, generated by a sequence of pulses in the gate voltage with the help of the autoregressive model. We find that the tunneling current is multistable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-04 Pei Wang , Gao Xianlong , Shaojun Xu

The possibility of non-adiabatic electron pumping in the system of three coupled quantum dots attached to the leads is discussed. We have found out that periodical changing of energy level position in the middle quantum dot results in non…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-25 P. I. Arseyev , N. S. Maslova , V. N. Mantsevich

We propose a new mode of operation of an electron pump consisting of two weakly coupled quantum dots connected to reservoirs. An electron can be transferred within the device at zero bias voltage when it is subjected to electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. L. Hazelzet , M. R. Wegewijs , T. H. Stoof , Yu. V. Nazarov

Transport of overdamped Brownian particles in a two-dimensional asymmetric tube is investigated in the presence of nonadiabatic periodic driving forces. By using Brownian dynamics simulations we can find that the phenomena in nonadiabatic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-18 Bao-quan Ai

Time-dependent electron transport through a quantum dot and double quantum dot systems in the presence of polychromatic external periodic quantum dot energy-level modulations is studied within the time evolution operator method for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-12 T. Kwapinski , S. Kohler , P. Hanggi

Fully quantized mechanical motion of a single-level quantum dot coupled to two voltage biased electronic leads is studied. It is found that there are two different regimes depending on the applied voltage. If the bias voltage is below a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Nord , L. Y. Gorelik

We develop a theory of electron transport in a double quantum dot device recently proposed for the observation of the two-channel Kondo effect. Our theory provides a strategy for tuning the device to the non-Fermi-liquid fixed point, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Pustilnik , L. Borda , L. I. Glazman , J. von Delft

We study the differential conductance in the Kondo regime of a quantum dot coupled to multiple leads. When the bias is applied symmetrically on two of the leads ($V$ and $-V$, as usual in experiments), while the others are grounded, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Tolea , I. V. Dinu , A. Aldea

In this article, we review recent work about time dependent quantum transport through a quantum dot in Kondo regime. This represents a major step towards designing next generation transistors that are expected to replace current MOSFET's in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-13 Ali Goker , Elif Gedik

We develop a new approach to electron transport in mesoscopic systems by using a particular single-particle basis. Although this basis generates redundant many-particle amplitudes, it greatly simplifies the treatment. By using our method…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Shmuel Gurvitz

An approximate method based on adiabatic time dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is presented, that allows for the description of the electron dynamics in nanoscale junctions under arbitrary time dependent external potentials. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Y. Wang , C. -Y. Yam , G. H. Chen , Th. Frauenheim , T. A. Niehaus

We investigate charge and spin transport through an adiabatically driven, strongly interacting quantum dot weakly coupled to two metallic contacts with finite bias voltage. Within a kinetic equation approach, we identify coefficients of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Hernan L. Calvo , Laura Classen , Janine Splettstoesser , Maarten R. Wegewijs

Quantum pumping holds great potential for future applications in micro- and nanotechnology. Its main feature, dissipationless charge transport, is theoretically possible via several different mechanisms. However, since no unambiguous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Markku Jaaskelainen , Frank Corvino , Christopher P. Search , Vassilios Fessatidis