Crossover from adiabatic to antiadiabatic quantum pumping with dissipation

ORAL

Abstract

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 anti-adiabatic regime in the presence of dissipation, and find general and explicit analytical expressions for the pumped current in a minimal model describing a system with the topology of a ring forced by a periodic modulation of frequency $\omega$. The solution allows following in a transparent way the evolution of pumped DC current from much smaller to much larger $\omega$ values than the other relevant energy scale, the energy splitting introduced by the modulation. We find and characterize a temperature-dependent optimal value of the frequency for which the pumped current is maximal.

*Research supported by the Italian CNR through ESF Eurocore/FANAS/AFRI, by the Italian Ministry of University and Research, through PRIN 20087NX9Y7, and by the French ANR, contract QNM ANR10-BLAN-0404-03.

Authors

  • Giuseppe Ernesto Santoro

    • Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
    • SISSA and CNR/IOM
  • Franco Pellegrini

    • SISSA and CNR/IOM
  • Carlotta Negri

    • Laboratoire d'Ondes et Matiere d'Aquitaine, CNRS and Universite de Bordeaux
  • Fabio Pistolesi

    • Laboratoire d'Ondes et Matiere d'Aquitaine, CNRS and Universite de Bordeaux
  • Nicola Manini

    • ETSF and Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita degli Studi di Milano
  • Erio Tosatti

    • SISSA, Via Bonomea 265, Trieste 34136, Italy, ICTP Trieste
    • SISSA and ICTP, Trieste
    • Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
    • SISSA and CNR/IOM
    • SISSA \& CNR-IOM DEMOCRITOS, ICTP, Trieste, Italy