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Robust quantization of particle transport, as in a Thouless pump, is a hallmark of topological quantum systems with externally controlled system parameters. Here we instead propose and analyze a Thouless pump, for fermions in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Julius Bohm , James Anglin , Michael Fleischhauer

We demonstrate the operation of a quantum spin pump based on cyclic radio-frequency excitation of a GaAs quantum dot, including the ability to pump pure spin without pumping charge. The device takes advantage of bidirectional mesoscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-19 Susan K. Watson , R. M. Potok , C. M. Marcus , V. Umansky

We investigate a non-adiabatic parametric quantum pump consists of a nonmagnetic scattering region connected by two ferromagnetic leads. The presence of ferromagnetic leads allows electrons with different spins to experience different…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Wei Zheng , Junling Wu , Baigeng Wang , Jian Wang , Qingfeng Sun , Hong Guo

While the helical character of the edge channels responsible for charge transport in the quantum spin Hall regime of a two-dimensional topological insulator is by now well established, an experimental confirmation that the transport in the…

Spin pumping consists in the injection of spin currents into a non-magnetic material due to the precession of an adjacent ferromagnet. In addition to the pumping of spin the precession always leads to pumping of heat, but in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-11 V. Fernández Becerra , Mircea Trif , Timo Hyart

We demonstrate that a quantum spin Hall current, spontaneously generated at the edge of a two-dimensional topological insulator, acts as a source of spin-pumping for a magnetic impurity with uniaxial anisotropy. One can then manipulate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-10 Aaron Hurley , Awadhesh Narayan , Stefano Sanvito

We analyze a tight binding model of two coupled chains with strongly interacting fermions. Depending on the parameter $w$, the many body lowest energy band consists of either single particles or bound pairs. A topological quantum pump can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-20 Bart van Voorden , Kareljan Schoutens

We study an electrically controlled quantum spin Hall antidot embedded in a two-dimensional topological insulating bar. Helical edge states around the antidot and along the edges of the bar are tunnel coupled. The close connection between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-22 Giacomo Dolcetto , Fabio Cavaliere , Dario Ferraro , Maura Sassetti

We consider pumping through a small quantum dot separated from the leads by two point contacts, whose conductances, $G_{1}$ and $G_{2}$, serve as pumping parameters. When the dot is pincched, we find that there is a "resonance line" in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. Levinson , O. Entin-Wohlman , P. Wolfle

We theoretically propose quantum spin pumping mediated by magnons, under a time-dependent transverse magnetic field, at the interface between a ferromagnetic insulator and a non-magnetic metal. The generation of a spin current under a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-31 Kouki Nakata

In this paper, we propose the quantum spin pumping in quantum spin systems where an applied electric field ($E$) and magnetic field ($H$) cause a finite spin gap to its critical ground state. When these systems are subject to alternating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ryuichi Shindou

A new charge quantization in a phase-polarized Cooper Pair Pump (CPP) is proposed, based on the topological properties of its Hamiltonian ground state over a three-dimensional parameter space $\mathbb{P}$. The charge is quantized using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Raphaël Leone , Laurent Lévy , Philippe Lafarge

We show that a tight-binding model device consisting of a laterally connected ring at half filling in a tangent time-dependent magnetic field can in principle be designed to pump a purely spin current. The process exploits the spin-orbit…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 Michele Cini , Stefano Bellucci

Solid-state topological insulating phases, characterized by spin-momentum locked edge modes, provide a powerful route for spin and charge manipulation in electronic devices. We propose to control charge and spin transport in the helical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-01 Paolo Michetti , Björn Trauzettel

The Quantum Spin Hall insulator is characterized by the presence of gapless helical edge states where the spin of the charge carriers is locked to their direction of motion. In order to probe the properties of the edge modes, we propose a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-14 Roni Ilan , Jérôme Cayssol , Jens H. Bardarson , Joel E. Moore

By means of time-dependent density matrix renormalization group calculations we study topological quantum pumping in a strongly interacting system. The system under consideration is described by the Hamiltonian of a one-dimensional extended…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-26 Davide Rossini , Marco Gibertini , Vittorio Giovannetti , Rosario Fazio

We consider thermoelectric transport properties of the edge states of a two dimensional topological insulator in a double quantum point contact geometry coupled to two thermally biased reservoirs. Both spin-preserving and spin-flipping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 Flavio Ronetti , Luca Vannucci , Giacomo Dolcetto , Matteo Carrega , Maura Sassetti

We investigate two schemes for pumping spin adiabatically from a ferromagnet through an interacting quantum dot into a normal lead, which exploit the possibility to vary in time the ferromagnet's magnetization, either its amplitude or its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-17 Nina Winkler , Michele Governale , Jürgen König

We consider a four-terminal setup of a two-dimensional topological insulator (quantum spin Hall insulator) with local tunneling between the upper and lower edges. The edge modes are modeled as helical Luttinger liquids and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-08-30 Thomas L. Schmidt

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