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We apply the recently-developed partition-free time-dependent Landauer-B\"uttiker (TD-LB) formalism to the study of periodically-driven transport in graphene nanoribbons (GNR). When an AC driving is applied, this formalism can be used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-29 Michael Ridley , Riku Tuovinen

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 measure the rectified dc currents resulting when a 3-terminal semiconductor device with gate-dependent conductance is driven with an ac gate voltage. The rectified currents exhibit surprisingly complex behaviour as the dc source-drain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-28 S. P. Giblin , M. Kataoka , J. D. Fletcher , P. See , T. J. B. M. Janssen , J. P. Griffiths , G. A. C. Jones , I. Farrer , D. A. Ritchie

This paper investigates a scheme for quantized charge pumping based on single-parameter modulation. The device was realized in an AlGaAs-GaAs gated nanowire. We find a remarkable robustness of the quantized regime against variations in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-15 B. Kaestner , V. Kashcheyevs , G. Hein , K. Pierz , U. Siegner , H. W. Schumacher

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 study directed transport in periodically forced scattering systems in the regime of fast and strong driving where the dynamics is mixed to chaotic and adiabatic approximations do not apply. The model employed is a square potential well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-04 A. Castañeda , T. Dittrich , G. Sinuco

We use the Floquet scattering theory to study the correlation properties of the nonadiabatic pumped dc current and heat flow through a time-dependent potential well. Oscillator induced quasibound states of electrons can transit to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-04 Jiao-Hua Dai , Rui Zhu

We study single-parameter quantized charge pumping via a semiconductor quantum dot in high magnetic fields. The quantum dot is defined between two top gates in an AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructure. Application of an oscillating voltage to one of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-21 B. Kaestner , Ch. Leicht , V. Kashcheyevs , K. Pierz , U. Siegner , H. W. Schumacher

We investigate a recently developed scheme for quantized charge pumping based on single-parameter modulation. The device was realized in an AlGaAl-GaAs gated nanowire. It has been shown theoretically that non-adiabaticity is fundamentally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-10 B. Kaestner , C. Leicht , P. Mirovsky , V. Kashcheyevs , E. V. Kurganova , U. Zeitler , K. Pierz , H. W. Schumacher

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

In this work, an analytical model to calculate the channel potential and current-voltage characteristics in a Symmetric tunneling Field-Effect-Transistor (SymFET) is presented. The current in a SymFET flows by tunneling from an n-type…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-07 Pei Zhao , Randall M. Feenstra , Gong Gu , Debdeep Jena

We study the transport properties of setups with one and two mesoscopic rings threaded by ac magnetic fluxes of the form \Phi(t)=\Phi^{dc} + \Phi^{ac} cos(\Omega_0 t + \delta) and connected to two different particle reservoirs. We analyze…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-11 María Florencia Ludovico , Liliana Arrachea

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

Using quasi-time dependent semi-classical transport theory in RTA, we obtained coupled current equations in the presence of time varying field and based on general scattering mechanism $\tau \propto \mathcal{E}^{\beta}$. We find that close…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-19 M. Rabiu , S. Y. Mensah , S. S. Abukari

We report a theoretical study of time-dependent transport in a ballistic graphene field effect transistor. We develop a model based on Floquet theory describing Dirac electron transmission through a harmonically driven potential barrier.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 Y. Korniyenko , O. Shevtsov , T. Lofwander

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 investigate pure spin pumping in graphene by imposing a ferromagnet (F) with rotating magnetization on top of it. Using the generalized scattering approach for adiabatic spin pumping, we obtain the spin current pumped through magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-29 Mojtaba A. Rahimi , Ali G. Moghaddam

Presented in this paper is a proof-of-concept for a new approach to single electron pumping based on a Single Atom Transistor (SAT). By charge pumping electrons through an isolated dopant atom in silicon, precise currents of up to 160 pA at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-19 G. C. Tettamanzi , R. Wacquez , S. Rogge

We consider the adiabatic pumping of charge through a mesoscopic one dimensional wire in the presence of electron-electron interactions. A two-delta potential model is used to describe the wire, which allows to obtain exactly the scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pierre Devillard , Vladimir Gasparian , Thierry Martin

A dc current can be pumped through an interacting system by periodically varying two independent parameters such as magnetic field and a gate potential. We present a formula for the adiabatic pumping current in general interacting systems,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-25 Eran Sela , Yuval Oreg