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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

Alkaline-earth(-like) ultracold atoms, trapped in optical lattices and in the presence of an external gauge field, can stabilise Mott insulating phases characterised by density and magnetic order. We show that this property can be used to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-06-14 Luca Taddia , Eyal Cornfeld , Davide Rossini , Leonardo Mazza , Eran Sela , Rosario Fazio

We present a general formalism to study adiabatic pumping through interacting quantum dots. We derive a formula that relates the pumped charge to the local, instantaneous Green function of the dot. This formula is then applied to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Janine Splettstoesser , Michele Governale , Jürgen König , Rosario Fazio

The properties of surface Dirac Fermions on a 3D topological insulator in proximity to a magnetic insulator with spatially textured magnetization are considered. We present an exact analytical treatment of the spectrum, the bound states and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Christian Wickles , Wolfgang Belzig

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 the consequences of interference effects on the current generated by adiabatic quantum pumping in two distinct one-dimensional (1D) lattice model. The first model contains an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) loop within a tight-binding chain of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-05 Sungjun Kim , Kunal K. Das , Ari Mizel

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 examine adiabatic quantum pumping generated by an oscillating scatterer embedded in a one-dimensional ballistic ring and compare it with pumping caused by the same scatterer connected to external reservoirs. The pumped current for an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Moskalets , M. Buttiker

Quantum oscillations can be used to determine properties of the Fermi surface of metals by varying the magnitude and orientation of an external magnetic field. Topological insulator surface states are an unusual mix of normal and Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-11 Anthony R. Wright , Ross H. McKenzie

The coupled-wires approach has been shown to be useful in describing two-dimensional strongly interacting topological phases. In this manuscript we extend this approach to three-dimensions, and construct a model for a fractional strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 Eran Sagi , Yuval Oreg

We study transport across a time-dependent magnetic barrier present on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator. We show that such a barrier can be implemented for Dirac electrons on the surface of a three-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Adithi Udupa , K. Sengupta , Diptiman Sen

We consider the proximity effect between Dirac states at the surface of a topological insulator and a ferromagnet with easy plane anisotropy, which is described by the \emph{XY}-model and undergoes a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-15 Hilary M. Hurst , Dmitry K. Efimkin , Victor Galitski

The active manipulation of topologically protected states represents a pivotal frontier for quantum technologies, offering a unique confluence of topological robustness and precise quantum control. We propose an adiabatic pumping scheme for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Yang Peng , Rui-Shan Li , Yan-Jue Lv , Yi Zheng

A Brownian pump in nonlinear diffusive media is investigated in the presence of an unbiased external force. The pumping system is embedded in a finite region and bounded by two particle reservoirs. In the adiabatic limit, we obtain the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-23 Bao-quan Ai , Liang-gang Liu

We numerically study the parametric pumped current when magnetic field is applied both in the adiabatic and non-adiabatic regimes. In particular, we investigate the nature of pumped current for systems with resonance as well as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-09 Fuming Xu , Yanxia Xing , Jian Wang

Three-dimensional topological insulators are characterized by insulating bulk state and metallic surface state involving Dirac fermions that behave as massless relativistic particles. These Dirac fermions are responsible for achieving a…

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 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

We investigate quantum transport in a normal/superconductor graphene heterostructure, including the possibility of an anisotropic pairing potential in the superconducting region. We find that under certain circumstances, the conductance…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Linder , A. Sudbø

The transfer of conserved charges through insulating matter via smooth deformations of the Hamiltonian is known as quantum adiabatic, or Thouless, pumping. Central to this phenomenon are Hamiltonians whose insulating gap is controlled by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Pedro L. S. Lopes , Pouyan Ghaemi , Shinsei Ryu , Taylor L. Hughes