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Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 136801 (2009) [4 pages]

Nonadiabatic Pumping through Interacting Quantum Dots

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Fabio Cavaliere1, Michele Governale2,3, and Jürgen König2
1CNR-INFM LAMIA, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146 Genova, Italy
2Theoretische Physik, Universität Duisburg-Essen and CeNIDE, 47048 Duisburg, Germany
3School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand

Received 10 April 2009; published 23 September 2009

We study nonadiabatic two-parameter charge and spin pumping through a single-level quantum dot with Coulomb interaction. For the limit of weak tunnel coupling and in the regime of pumping frequencies up to the tunneling rates, ΩΓ/, we perform an exact resummation of contributions of all orders in the pumping frequency. As striking nonadiabatic signatures, we find frequency-dependent phase shifts in the charge and spin currents, which opens the possibility to control charge and spin currents by tuning the pumping frequency. This includes the realization of an effective single-parameter pumping as well as pure spin without charge currents.

© 2009 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.136801
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.136801
PACS:
73.23.Hk, 72.10.Bg, 85.75.−d