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We investigate a graphene quantum pump, adiabatically driven by two thin potential barriers vibrating around their equilibrium positions. For the highly doped leads, the pumped current per mode diverges at the Dirac point due to the more…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-22 Babak Abdollahipour , Ramin Mohammadkhani

We propose a new type of quantum pump made out of graphene, adiabatically driven by oscillating voltages applied to two back gates. From a practical point of view, graphene-based quantum pumps present advantages as compared to normal pumps,…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-07-18 Elsa Prada , Pablo San-Jose , Henning Schomerus

We applied the Floquet scattering-matrix formalism to studying the electronic transport properties in a mesoscopic Dirac system. Using the method, we investigate theoretically quantum pumping driven by a series of time-periodic potentials…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-06 Zhenhua Wu , J. Li , K. S. Chand

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

We show that graphene-based quantum pumps can tap into evanescent modes, which penetrate deeply into the device as a consequence of Klein tunneling. The evanescent modes dominate pumping at the Dirac point, and give rise to a universal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-15 Elsa Prada , Pablo San-Jose , Henning Schomerus

We investigate non-adiabatic electron pumping in graphene generated by laser irradiation with linear polarization parallel or perpendicular to the transport direction. Transport is dominated by the spatially asymmetric excitation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-12 Pablo San-Jose , Elsa Prada , Henning Schomerus , Sigmund Kohler

We study the adiabatic quantum pumping characteristics in the graphene modulated by two oscillating gate potentials out of phase. The angular and energy dependence of the pumped current is presented. The direction of the pumped current can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Rui Zhu , Huiming Chen

We present results for non-adiabatic single-parameter pumping in a ballistic graphene field-effect transistor. We investigate how scattering from an ac-driven top gate results in dc charge current from source to drain in an asymmetric setup…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-16 Y. Korniyenko , O. Shevtsov , T. Lofwander

We present a theoretical study of quantum charge pumping with a single ac gate applied to graphene nanoribbons and carbon nanotubes operating with low resistance contacts. By combining Floquet theory with Green's function formalism, we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-01 L. E. F. Foa Torres , H. L. Calvo , C. G. Rocha , G. Cuniberti

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

Single electron pumps are set to revolutionize electrical metrology by enabling the ampere to be re-defined in terms of the elementary charge of an electron. Pumps based on lithographically-fixed tunnel barriers in mesoscopic metallic…

We propose a time-dependent approach to investigate the motion of electrons in quantum pump device configurations. The occupied one-particle states are propagated in real time and used to calculate the local electron density and current. An…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Stefanucci , S. Kurth , A. Rubio , E. K. U. Gross

We investigate quantum pumping of massless Dirac fermions in an ideal (impurity free) double layer of graphene. The pumped current is generated by adiabatic variation of two gate voltages in the contact regions to a weakly doped double…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-23 Marnix Wakker , Miriam Blaauboer

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 consider the phenomenon of quantum charge pumping of electrons across a superconducting double barrier structure in graphene in the adiabatic limit. In this geometry, quantum charge pumping can be achieved by modulating the amplitudes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Arijit Kundu , Sumathi Rao , Arijit Saha

Photon-assisted charge transport through a double barrier structure under a time periodic field in graphene is studied. Within the framework of the Floquet formalism and using the transfer matrix method, the transmission probabilities for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-12 H. P. Ojeda-Collado , C. Rodríguez-Castellanos

We study an adiabatic quantum pump effect in a two terminal graphene device with two oscillating square electric barriers and a stationary magnetic barrier using the scattering matrix approach. The model employs the low-energy Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-10 E. Grichuk , E. Manykin

The control of physical properties of solids with short laser pulses is an intriguing prospect of ultrafast materials science. Continuous-wave high-frequency laser driving with circular polarization was predicted to induce a light-matter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-15 M. A. Sentef , M. Claassen , A. F. Kemper , B. Moritz , T. Oka , J. K. Freericks , T. P. Devereaux

We theoretically analyse the dynamics of a suspended graphene membrane which is in tunnel contact with grounded metallic electrodes and subjected to ac-electrostatic potential induced by a gate electrode. It is shown that for such system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Axel M. Eriksson , Marina V. Voinova , Leonid Y. Gorelik

The combination of high frequency vibrations and metallic transport in graphene makes it a unique material for nano-electromechanical devices. In this letter, we show that graphene-based nano-electromechanical devices are extremely well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-13 Tony Low , Yongjin Jiang , Mikhail Katsnelson , Francisco Guinea
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