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Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1286–1289 (1998)

Adiabatic Charge Pumping in Almost Open Dots

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I. L. Aleiner1 and A. V. Andreev2
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794
2Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB, Santa Barbara, California 9106-4030

Received 30 April 1998; published in the issue dated 10 August 1998

We consider adiabatic charge transport through an almost open quantum dot. We show that the charge transmitted in one cycle is quantized in the limit of vanishing temperature and one-electron mean level spacing in the dot. The explicit analytic expression for the pumped charge at finite temperature is obtained for spinless electrons. The pumped charge is produced by both nondissipative and dissipative currents. The former give a quantized contribution to the transferred charge, whereas the latter are responsible for the corrections to charge quantization which are expressed through the conductance of the system.

© 1998 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.1286
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.1286
PACS:
73.23.Hk, 72.10.Bg, 73.40.Ei