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We calculate adiabatic charge and spin pumping through a serial double quantum dot with strong Coulomb interaction, coupled to normal metal or ferromagnetic contacts. We use a real-time diagrammatic approach in the regime of weak coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-13 Roman-Pascal Riwar , Janine Splettstoesser

A d.c. current can be pumped through a quantum dot by periodically varying two independent parameters $X_1$ and $X_2$, like a gate voltage or magnetic field. We present a formula that relates the pumped current to the parametric derivatives…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. W. Brouwer

We study adiabatic pumping through a quantum dot tunnel-coupled to one normal and one superconducting lead. We generalize a formula which relates the pumped charge through a quantum dot with Coulomb interaction to the instantaneous local…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 Janine Splettstoesser , Michele Governale , Jürgen König , Fabio Taddei , Rosario Fazio

Based on the scattering matrix approach, we systematically investigate the anharmonic effect of the pumped current in double-barrier structures with adiabatic time-modulation of two sinusoidal AC driven potential heights. The pumped current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-01 Wei-Yin Deng , Ke-Ju Zhong , Rui Zhu , Wen-Ji Deng

We introduce a mathematical setup for charge transport in quantum pump connected to a number of external leads. It is proved that under rather general assumption on the Hamiltonian describing the system, in the adiabatic limit, the current…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. E. Avron , A. Elgart , G. M. Graf , L. Sadun , K. Schnee

We consider quantum statistics of charge transmitted through a mesoscopic device in the adiabatic pumping process. A general formula for the distribution function of the transmitted charge in terms of the time-dependent S-matrix is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Anton Andreev , Alex Kamenev

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

We review recent theoretical calculations of charge transfer through mesoscopic devices in response to slowly-oscillating, spatially-confined, potentials. The discussion is restricted to non-interacting electrons, and emphasizes the role of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ora Entin-Wohlman , Amnon Aharony , Vyacheslavs Kashcheyevs

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

In order to investigate the effects of interference and interaction in adiabatic pumping, we consider an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometer with a quantum dot embedded either in one or in both arms. We employ a real-time formalism and we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-02 Bastian Hiltscher , Michele Governale , Jürgen König

Adiabatically pumped charge, carried by non-interacting electrons through a quantum dot in a turnstile geometry, is studied as function of the strength of the two modulating potentials (related to the conductances of the two point-contacts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 O. Entin-Wohlman , Amnon Aharony

Quantum pumping, in its different forms, is attracting attention from different fields, from fundamental quantum mechanics, to nanotechnology, to superconductivity. We investigate the crossover of quantum pumping from the adiabatic to the…

We provide provide a detailed study of biasless coherent transport of singlet electron pairs in one-dimensional (1D) channels induced by electron-electron interactions that are time-varying in certain spatially localized regions of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kunal K. Das

We study non-adiabatic charge pumping through single-level quantum dots taking into account Coulomb interactions. We show how a truncated set of equations of motion can be propagated in time by means of an auxiliary-mode expansion. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-12 Alexander Croy , Ulf Saalmann , Alexis R. Hernández , Caio H. Lewenkopf

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 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 classical overdamped Brownian particle moving in a symmetric periodic potential. We show that a net particle flow can be produced by adiabatically changing two external periodic potentials with a spatial and a temporal phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 O. Usmani , E. Lutz , M. Buttiker

We investigate adiabatic quantum pumping of Dirac fermions on the surface of a strong 3D topological insulator. Two different geometries are studied in detail, a normal metal -- ferromagnetic -- normal metal (NFN) junction and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-09 M. Alos-Palop , Rakesh P. Tiwari , M. Blaauboer

We study adiabatic pumping of electrons through quantum dots attached to ferromagnetic leads. Hereby we make use of a real-time diagrammatic technique in the adiabatic limit that takes into account strong Coulomb interaction in the dot. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Janine Splettstoesser , Michele Governale , Jürgen König

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