arXiv · 1510.00336
Statistics of an adiabatic charge pump
Abstract
We investigate the effect of time-dependent cyclic-adiabatic driving on the charge transport in quantum junction. We propose a nonequilibrium Greens function formalism to study statistics of the charge pumped (at zero bias) through the junction. The formulation is used to demonstrate charge pumping in a single electronic level coupled to two (electronic) reservoirs with time dependent couplings. Analytical expression for the average pumped current for a general cyclic driving is derived. It is found that for zero bias, for a certain class of driving, the Berry phase contributes only to the odd cumulants. To contrast, a quantum master equation formulation does not show Berry-phase effect at all.
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Hari Kumar Yadalam, Upendra Harbola. 2015-10-01. Statistics of an adiabatic charge pump. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.93.035312
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