Adiabatic transport in nanostructures

Details Adiabatic transport in nanostructures Adiabatic transport in nanostructures

2002-01-07

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0201073v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

8 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.65.195411

A confined system of non-interacting electrons, subject to the combined effect of a time-dependent potential and different external chemical-potentials, is considered. The current flowing through such a system is obtained for arbitrary strengths of the modulating potential, using the adiabatic approximation in an iterative manner. A new formula is derived for the charge pumped through an un-biased system (all external chemical potentials are kept at the same value); It reproduces the Brouwer formula for a two-terminal nanostructure. The formalism presented yields the effect of the chemical potential bias on the pumped charge on one hand, and the modification of the Landauer formula (which gives the current in response to a constant chemical-potential difference) brought about by the modulating potential on the other. Corrections to the adiabatic approximation are derived and discussed.

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