Mesoscopic transport of fermions through an engineered optical lattice connecting two reservoirs

Details Mesoscopic transport of fermions through an engineered optical lattice connecting two reservoirs Mesoscopic transport of fermions through an engineered optical lattice connecting two reservoirs

2011-07-24

arxiv.org/abs/1107.4792v2

Phys. Rev. A 85, 013623 (2012)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Quantum Gases

8 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.85.013623

We study transport of fermions in a system composed of a short optical lattice connecting two finite atomic reservoirs at different filling levels. The average equilibration current through the optical lattice, for strong lattice-reservoir coupling and finite temperatures, is calculated within the Landauer formalism using a nonequilibrium Green's functions approach. We moreover determine quantum and thermal fluctuations in the transport and find significant shot-to-shot deviations from the average equilibration current. We show how to control the atomic current by engineering specific optical lattice potentials without requiring site-by-site manipulations and suggest the realization of a single level model. Based on this model we discuss the blocking effect on the atomic current resulting from weak interactions between the fermions.

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