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We investigate an adiabatic spin pumping through a quantum dot with a single orbital energy level under the Zeeman effect. Electron pumping is produced by two periodic time dependent parameters, a magnetic field and a difference of the…

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

We study the dynamics of charge and energy currents in a Coulomb-coupled double quantum dot system, when only one of the two dots is adiabatically driven by a time-periodic gate that modulates its energy level. Although the Coulomb coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Maria Florencia Ludovico , Massimo Capone

We study adiabatic charge pumping through a quantum dot placed at the junction of $N$ quantum wires. We explicitly map out the pattern of pumped charge as a function of the time-varying tunneling parameters coupling the wires to the dot and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Shamik Banerjee , Anamitra Mukherjee , Sumathi Rao , Arijit Saha

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

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 consider the full driven quantum dynamics of a qubit realized as spin of electron in a one-dimensional double quantum dot with spin-orbit coupling. The driving perturbation is taken in the form of a single half-period pulse of electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 D. V. Khomitsky , E. Ya. Sherman

Quasi-static transport measurements are employed on a laterally defined tunnel-coupled double quantum dot. A nearby quantum point contact allows us to track the charge as added to the device. If charged with only up to one electron, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. K. Huettel , S. Ludwig , K. Eberl , J. P. Kotthaus

The adiabatic topological pumping is proposed by periodically modulating a semiconductor nanowire double-quantum-dot chain. We demonstrate that the quantized charge transport can be achieved by a nontrivial modulation of the quantum-dot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Zhi-Hai Liu , H. Q. Xu

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

We analyze time-dependent transport through a quantum dot with electron-electron interaction that is statically tunable to both repulsive and attractive regimes, or even dynamically driven. Motivated by the recent experimental realization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 B. A. Placke , T. Pluecker , J. Splettstoesser , M. R. Wegewijs

We study adiabatic pumping through a quantum dot tunnel-coupled to one normal and one superconducting lead. We generalize a formula which relates the pumped charge through a quantum dot with Coulomb interaction to the instantaneous local…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 Janine Splettstoesser , Michele Governale , Jürgen König , Fabio Taddei , Rosario Fazio

We study electron tunneling through two small ferromagnetic dots. Quantum charge fluctuations and interdot coupling make each Coulomb peak of the conductance at zero interdot coupling split across. The interdot tunnel coupling is determined…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Sheng , D. Y. Xing , D. N. Sheng

We study the full counting statistics of electronic transport through a single-level quantum dot weakly coupled to two leads, with either one or both of them being ferromagnetic. The interplay of Coulomb interaction and finite spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-05 Stephan Lindebaum , Daniel Urban , Jürgen König

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

We address theoretically adiabatic regime of charge transport for a model of two tunnel-coupled quantum dots connected in series. The energy levels of the two dots are harmonically modulated by an external potential with a constant phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 Vyacheslavs Kashcheyevs

We analyze quantum charge pumping in an open ring with a dot embedded in one of its arms. We show that cyclic driving of the dot levels by a \textit{single} parameter leads to a pumped current when a static magnetic flux is simultaneously…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Luis E. F. Foa Torres

We study electron transport in a double quantum dot in the Pauli spin blockade regime, in the presence of strong spin-orbit coupling. The effect of spin-orbit coupling is incorporated into a modified interdot tunnel coupling. We elucidate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Danon , Yu. V. Nazarov

We study theoretically the interaction between the charge dynamics of a few-electron double quantum dot and a capacitively-coupled AFM cantilever, a setup realized in several recent experiments. We demonstrate that the dot-induced frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-22 Jamie Gardner , Steven D. Bennett , Aashish A. Clerk

We derive a formula describing the adiabatically pumped charge through an interacting quantum dot within the scattering matrix and Green's function approach. We show that when the tunneling rates between the leads and the dot are varied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-24 F. Romeo , R. Citro

We study the spin-dependent transport properties of a spin valve based on a double quantum dot. Each quantum dot is assumed to be strongly coupled to its own ferromagnetic lead, while the coupling between the dots is relatively weak. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Patrycja Tulewicz , Kacper Wrzesniewski , Szabolcs Csonka , Ireneusz Weymann