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Nonadiabatic quantum interferences emerge whenever nuclear wavefunctions in different electronic states meet and interact in a nonadiabatic region. In this work, we analyze how nonadiabatic quantum interferences translate in the context of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Basile F. E. Curchod , Federica Agostini , E. K. U. Gross

We introduce a method where successive coordinate transformations are applied to decrease the error in the adiabatic master equation resulting from truncation in the local adiabatic parameter. Our method reduces the nonphysical behaviour…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-12-22 Juha Salmilehto , Mikko Möttönen

We study charge and spin transport through an interacting quantum wire, caused by backscattering off an effective impurity potential with a periodic time-dependence. The adiabatic regime of this pump for charge and spin is shown to depend…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Prashant Sharma , Claudio Chamon

A one-dimensional system with two $\delta$-like barriers or wells bi-chromaticaly oscillating at frequencies $\omega$ and $2\omega$ is considered. The alternating signal leads to the direct current across the structure (even in a symmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. M. Mahmoodian , M. V. Entin

Topological pumping refers to transfer of a physical quantity governed by the systemtopology, resulting in quantized amounts of the transferred quantities. It is a ubiqui-tous wave phenomenon typically considered subject to exactly periodic…

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 Thouless pump can be regarded as a dynamical version of the integer quantum Hall effect. In a finite-size configuration, such topological pump displays edge modes that emerge dynamically from one bulk-band and dive into the opposite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-24 Wenting Cheng , Emil Prodan , Camelia Prodan

The charge transported when a quantum pump is adiabatically driven by time-dependent external forces in presence of dissipation is given by the line integral of a pumping field $\mathbf{F}$. We give a general expression of $\mathbf{F}$ in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-29 Juzar Thingna , Peter Hänggi , Rosario Fazio , Michele Campisi

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

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

We study the effects of inter-electron interactions on the charge pumped through an adiabatic quantum electron pump. The pumping is through a system of barriers, whose heights are deformed adiabatically. (Weak) interaction effects are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-03 Sourin Das , Sumathi Rao

Geometric phases of scattering states in a ring geometry are studied based on a variant of the adiabatic theorem. Three time scales, i.e., the adiabatic period, the system time and the dwell time, associated with adiabatic scattering in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Huan-Qiang Zhou , Urban Lundin , Sam Young Cho

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 adiabatic quantum pumping through a resonant level model, a single-level quantum dot connected to two fermionic leads. Using the tools of adiabatic expansion, we develop a self-contained thermodynamic description of this model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Daniele Nello , Alessandro Silva

We investigate the quantum effects, in particular the Landau-level quantization, in the scattering of a particle the nonadiabatic classical dynamics of which is governed by an adiabatic invariant. As a relevant example, we study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Dahlem , F. Evers , A. D. Mirlin , D. G. Polyakov , P. Woelfle

A theory of optical emission of quantum dot arrays in quantum microcavities is developed. The regime of the strong coupling between the quantum dots and photonic mode of the cavity is considered. The quantum dots are modeled as two-level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. N. Poddubny , M. M. Glazov , N. S. Averkiev

We propose a random matrix theory to describe the influence of a time-dependent external field on electron transport through open quantum dots. We describe the generation of the current by an oscillating field for the dot, connected to two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Maxim G. Vavilov , V. Ambegaokar , Igor L. Aleiner

In Thouless pump, the charge transport in a one-dimensional insulator over an adiabatic cycle is topologically quantized. For nonequilibrium initial states, however, interband coherence will induce a previously unknown contribution to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 Gudapati Naresh Raghava , Longwen Zhou , Jiangbin Gong

We derived a general and exact expression of current for quantum parametric charge pumps in the non-adiabatic regime at finite pumping frequency and finite driving amplitude. The non-perturbative theory predicts a remarkable plateau…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Baigeng Wang , Jian Wang , Hong Guo

We applied the Floquet scattering-matrix formalism to studying the electronic transport properties in a mesoscopic Dirac system. Using the method, we investigate theoretically quantum pumping driven by a series of time-periodic potentials…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-06 Zhenhua Wu , J. Li , K. S. Chand