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We propose a method to dynamically generate and control the flow of spin-entangled electrons, each belonging to a spin-singlet, by means of adiabatic quantum pumping. The pumping cycle functions by periodic time variation of localized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Kunal K. Das , Sungjun Kim , Ari Mizel

We analyze theoretically adiabatic quantum pumping through a normal conductor that couples the normal regions of two superconductor/normal metal/superconductor Josephson junctions. By using the phases of the superconducting order parameter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Russo , J. Tobiska , T. M. Klapwijk , A. F. Morpurgo

We investigate charge and spin transport through an adiabatically driven, strongly interacting quantum dot weakly coupled to two metallic contacts with finite bias voltage. Within a kinetic equation approach, we identify coefficients of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Hernan L. Calvo , Laura Classen , Janine Splettstoesser , Maarten R. Wegewijs

Precise manipulation of individual charge carriers in nanoelectronic circuits underpins practical applications of their most basic quantum property --- the universality and invariance of the elementary charge. A charge pump generates a net…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-24 Bernd Kaestner , Vyacheslavs Kashcheyevs

We present a realization of quantized charge pumping. A lateral quantum dot is defined by metallic split gates in a GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure. A surface acoustic wave whose wavelength is twice the dot length is used to pump single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Ebbecke , N. E. Fletcher , T. J. B. M. Janssen , F. J. Ahlers , M. Pepper , H. E. Beere , D. A. Ritchie

We construct mode-selective effective models describing the interaction of N quantum emitters (QEs) with the localised surface plasmon polaritons (LSPs) supported by a spherical metal nanoparticle (MNP) in an arbitrary geometric arrangement…

The charge current adiabatically pumped through a mesoscopic region coupled to a classical variable obeying a nonlinear dynamics is studied within the scattering matrix approach. Due to the nonlinearity in the dynamics of the variable, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-07 F. Romeo , R. Citro

The charge current pumped adiabatically through a deformable quantum dot is studied within the Green's function approach. Differently from the non-deformable case, the current shows an undefined parity with respect to the pumping phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-05 F. Romeo , R. Citro

We investigate adiabatic pumping via a single level quantum dot induced by periodic modulation of thermodynamic variables of reservoirs, i.e., temperatures and electrochemical potentials. We consider the impurity Anderson model and derive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 M. Hasegawa , T. Kato

We consider an effect of the discrete spatial symmetries and magnetic field on the adiabatic charge pumping in mesoscopic systems. In general case, there is no symmetry of the pumped charge with respect to the inversion of magnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. L. Aleiner , B. L. Altshuler , A. Kamenev

We investigate the distribution function, the heat flow and the noise properties of an adiabatic quantum pump for an arbitrary relation of pump frequency $\omega$ and temperature. To achieve this we start with the scattering matrix approach…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Moskalets , M. Buttiker

Pumping of charge (Q) in a closed ring geometry is not quantized even in the strict adiabatic limit. The deviation form exact quantization can be related to the Thouless conductance. We use Kubo formalism as a starting point for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Doron Cohen

Single-parameter adiabatic charge pumping, induced by a nearby radio-frequency antenna, is achieved in suspended carbon nanotubes close to the mechanical resonance. The charge pumping is due to an important dynamic adjustment of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-25 C. A. Perroni , A. Nocera , V. Cataudella

This is a review of the phase coherent transmission through interacting mesoscopic conductors. As a paradigm we study the transmission amplitude and the dephasing rate for electron transport through a quantum dot in the Coulomb blockade…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Hackenbroich

We study adiabatic charge transfer in a superconducting Cooper pair pump, focusing on the influence of current measurement on coherence. We investigate the limit where the Josephson coupling energy $E_J$ between the various parts of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rosario Fazio , F. W. J. Hekking , J. P. Pekola

We study the phenomenon of adiabatic quantum charge pumping in systems supporting fractionally charged fermionic bound states, in two different setups. The first quantum pump setup consists of a charge-density-modulated quantum wire, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-23 Arijit Saha , Diego Rainis , Rakesh P. Tiwari , Daniel Loss

Adiabatic quantum charge pumping in graphene nanoribbon double barrier structures with armchair and zigzag edges in the resonant transmission regime is analyzed. Using recursive Green's function method we numerically calculate the pumped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-13 E. Grichuk , E. Manykin

We investigate the pumped charge and spin at zero-bias by adiabatic modulation of two control parameters using the full counting statistics with quantum master equation approach. First we study higher order effects of the pumping frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-28 Satoshi Nakajima , Masahiko Taguchi , Toshihiro Kubo , Yasuhiro Tokura

Non-adiabatic pumping of discrete charges, realized by a dynamical quantum dot in an AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructure, is studied under influence of a perpendicular magnetic field. Application of an oscillating voltage in the GHz-range to one of…

We theoretically study nonadiabatic corrections for charge pumping in a noninteracting electron model of a single-level quantum dot. We derive a formula for the velocity limit of parameter driving to realize adiabatic pumping and illustrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 Masahiro Hasegawa , Takeo Kato