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We propose a method to dynamically generate and control the flow of spin-entangled electrons, each belonging to a spin-singlet, by means of adiabatic quantum pumping. The pumping cycle functions by periodic time variation of localized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Kunal K. Das , Sungjun Kim , Ari Mizel

We use the equations of motion of non-interacting electrons in a one-dimensional system to numerically study different aspects of charge pumping. We study the effects of the pumping frequency, amplitude, band filling and finite bias on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Amit Agarwal , Diptiman Sen

We consider adiabatic charge transport through an almost open quantum dot. We show that the charge transmitted in one cycle is quantized in the limit of vanishing temperature and one-electron mean level spacing in the dot. The explicit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. L. Aleiner , A. V. Andreev

We consider the adiabatic charge transport through zero-dimensional mesoscopic sample (quantum dot) caused by two periodically changing external perturbations. Both the magnitude and the sign of the transmitted charge are extremely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. A. Shutenko , I. L. Aleiner , B. L. Altshuler

We propose a mechanism by which an open quantum dot driven by two ac (radio frequency) gate voltages in the presence of a moderate in-plane magnetic field generates a spin polarized, phase coherent dc current. The idea combines adiabatic,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Eduardo R. Mucciolo , Claudio Chamon , Charles M. Marcus

We study charge and spin transport through an interacting quantum wire, caused by backscattering off an effective impurity potential with a periodic time-dependence. The adiabatic regime of this pump for charge and spin is shown to depend…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Prashant Sharma , Claudio Chamon

We investigate a non-adiabatic parametric quantum pump consists of a nonmagnetic scattering region connected by two ferromagnetic leads. The presence of ferromagnetic leads allows electrons with different spins to experience different…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Wei Zheng , Junling Wu , Baigeng Wang , Jian Wang , Qingfeng Sun , Hong Guo

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 have developed a general theory for a parametric pump consisting of a nonmagnetic system with two ferromagnetic leads whose magnetic moments orient at an angle $\theta$ with respect to each other. In this theory, the leads can maintain…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Wu Junling , Baigeng Wang , Jian Wang

We use exact techniques to demonstrate theoretically the pumping of fractional charges in a single-level non-interacting quantum dot, when the dot-reservoir coupling is adiabatically driven from weak to strong coupling. The pumped charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Masahiro Hasegawa , Etienne Jussiau , Robert S. Whitney

We investigate adiabatic pumping via a single level quantum dot induced by periodic modulation of thermodynamic variables of reservoirs, i.e., temperatures and electrochemical potentials. We consider the impurity Anderson model and derive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 M. Hasegawa , T. Kato

In a mesoscopic system, under zero bias voltage, a finite charge is transferred by quantum adiabatic pumping by adiabatically and periodically changing two or more control parameters. We obtained expressions for the pumped charge for a ring…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-22 Masahiko Taguchi , Satoshi Nakajima , Toshihiro Kubo , Yasuhiro Tokura

We develop a theory of electron transport through quantum dots that are weakly coupled to ferromagnetic leads. The theory covers both the linear and nonlinear transport regime, takes non-collinear magnetization of the leads into account,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthias Braun , Jürgen König , Jan Martinek

We propose schemes for generating spin currents into a semiconductor by adiabatic or non-adiabatic pumping of electrons through interacting quantum dots. The appeal of such schemes lies in the possibility to tune the pumping characteristics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-09 Stephan Rojek , Michele Governale , Jürgen König

We investigate real-time dynamics of spin-polarized current in a quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic leads in both parallel and antiparallel alignments. While an external bias voltage is taken constant in time, a gate terminal,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-22 Fabricio M. Souza , Thiago L. Carrara , E. Vernek

We study the Kondo effect in a quantum dot which is coupled to ferromagnetic leads and analyse its properties as a function of the spin polarization of the leads. Based on a scaling approach we predict that for parallel alignment of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Martinek , Y. Utsumi , H. Imamura , J. Barnas , S. Maekawa , J. König , G. Schön

By combining Floquet theory with Green's function formalism, we present non-adiabatic quantum spin and charge pumping through a zigzag ferromagnetic graphene nanoribbon including a double-barriers structure driven weakly by two local $ac$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-25 Hosein Cheraghchi

We propose a random matrix theory to describe the influence of a time-dependent external field on electron transport through open quantum dots. We describe the generation of the current by an oscillating field for the dot, connected to two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Maxim G. Vavilov , V. Ambegaokar , Igor L. Aleiner

Precise manipulation of individual charge carriers in nanoelectronic circuits underpins practical applications of their most basic quantum property --- the universality and invariance of the elementary charge. A charge pump generates a net…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-24 Bernd Kaestner , Vyacheslavs Kashcheyevs

Using irreversible thermodynamics we show that current-induced spin transfer torque within a magnetic domain implies spin pumping of current within that domain. This has experimental implications for samples both with conducting leads and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Wayne M. Saslow