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Quantum pumping in graphene has been predicted in recent years. Till date there have been no experiments indicating a graphene based quantum pump. This is not uncommon as in case of other non-Dirac behavior showing materials it has not yet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-30 Colin Benjamin

Quantum charge pumping, the quantum coherent generation of a dc current at zero bias through time dependent potentials, provides outstanding opportunities for metrology and the development of new devices. The long electronic coherence times…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-27 Lucas H. Ingaramo , Luis E. F. Foa Torres

Quantum pumping, in its different forms, is attracting attention from different fields, from fundamental quantum mechanics, to nanotechnology, to superconductivity. We investigate the crossover of quantum pumping from the adiabatic to the…

A quantum pump in buckled graphene ribbon with armchair edges is discussed numerically. By solving the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model and performing the computer simulation of quantum transport we find that a kink adiabatically moving along the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-19 Dominik Suszalski , Adam Rycerz

We consider quantum charge pumping of electrons across a superconducting double barrier structure in the adiabatic limit. The superconducting barriers are assumed to be reflection-less so that an incident electron on the barrier can either…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Arijit Saha , Sourin Das

The charge current pumped adiabatically through a deformable quantum dot is studied within the Green's function approach. Differently from the non-deformable case, the current shows an undefined parity with respect to the pumping phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-05 F. Romeo , R. Citro

A quantum pump device involving magnetic barriers produced by the deposition of ferro magnetic stripes on hetero-structure's is investigated. The device for dc- transport does not provide spin-polarized currents, but in the adiabatic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ronald Benjamin , Colin Benjamin

We investigate adiabatic pumping through a quantum dot with a single level in the mixed-valence and Kondo regimes using the slave-boson mean field approximation. The pumped current is driven by a gauge potential due to time-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomosuke Aono

Spin-dependent diffraction occurs in helimagnet-related transport processes. In this work, we investigated quantum pumping properties in the normal-metal/helimagnet/normal-metal heterostructure driven by two out of phase time-dependent gate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Rui Zhu , Li-Juan Cui

We present a proposal for an adiabatic quantum pump based on a graphene monolayer patterned by electrostatic gates and operated in the low-energy Dirac regime. The setup under investigation works in the presence of inhomogeneous spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-20 Dario Bercioux , Daniel F. Urban , Francesco Romeo , Roberta Citro

Based on the scattering matrix approach, we systematically investigate the anharmonic effect of the pumped current in double-barrier structures with adiabatic time-modulation of two sinusoidal AC driven potential heights. The pumped current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-01 Wei-Yin Deng , Ke-Ju Zhong , Rui Zhu , Wen-Ji Deng

We consider quantum pumping of Dirac fermions in a monolayer of graphene in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field in the central pumping region. The two external pump parameters are electrical voltages applied to the graphene sheet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-11 Rakesh P. Tiwari , M. Blaauboer

A one-dimensional system with two $\delta$-like barriers or wells bi-chromaticaly oscillating at frequencies $\omega$ and $2\omega$ is considered. The alternating signal leads to the direct current across the structure (even in a symmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. M. Mahmoodian , M. V. Entin

In this work, pumped currents of the adiabatically-driven double-barrier structure based on the pseudospin-1 Dirac-Weyl fermions are studied. As a result of the three-band dispersion and hence the unique properties of pseudospin-1…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-14 Xiaomei Chen , Rui Zhu

We study electron pumping through a system of barriers, whose heights are deformed adiabatically. We derive a simple formula for the pumped charge $Q$ in terms of the total reflection and transmission amplitudes and phases. The pumped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Argha Banerjee , Sourin Das , Sumathi Rao

We investigate the influence of the Coulomb interaction on the adiabatic pumping current through quantum dots. Using nonequilibrium Green's functions techniques, we derive a general expression for the current based on the instantaneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-16 A. R. Hernández , F. A. Pinheiro , C. H. Lewenkopf , E. R. Mucciolo

During an adiabatic pumping cycle a conventional two barrier quantum device takes an electron from the left lead and ejects it to the right lead. Hence the pumped charge per cycle is naively expected to be $Q \le e$. This zero order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Itamar Sela , Doron Cohen

We study adiabatic pumping through a two-level quantum dot with spin-orbit coupling. Using a diagrammatic real-time approach, we calculate both the pumped charge and spin for a periodic variation of the dot's energy levels in the limit of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-11 Stephan Rojek , Jürgen König , Alexander Shnirman

We investigate adiabatic quantum pumping through a normal metal-insulator-superconductor (NIS) junction in a monolayer of graphene. The pumped current is generated by periodic modulation of two gate voltages, applied to the insulating and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-09 M. Alos-Palop , M. Blaauboer

Adiabatically pumped charge, carried by non-interacting electrons through a quantum dot in a turnstile geometry, is studied as function of the strength of the two modulating potentials (related to the conductances of the two point-contacts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 O. Entin-Wohlman , Amnon Aharony