Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2012-02-27
Phys. Rev. B 85, 155425 (2012)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
9 pages; 3 figures: Final published version; includes minor revisions from the last version
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.85.155425
Periodically driven systems, which can be described by Floquet theory, have been proposed to show characteristic behavior that is distinct from static Hamiltonians. Floquet theory proposes to describe such periodically driven systems in terms of states that are indexed by a photon number in addition to the usual Hilbert space of the system. We propose a way to measure directly this additional Floquet degree of freedom by the measurement of the DC conductance of a single channel quantum point contact. Specifically, we show that a single channel wire augmented with a grating structure when irradiated with microwave radiation can show a DC conductance above the limit of one conductance quantum set by the Landauer formula. Another interesting feature of the proposed system is that being non-adiabatic in character, it can be used to pump a strong gate-voltage dependent photo-current even with linearly polarized radiation.
Halperin Bertrand I.
Kitagawa Takuya
Sau Jay D.
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