Statistics of an adiabatic charge pump
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❄️ cond-mat.stat-mech
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chargedrivingbiaseffectelectronicformulationjunctionpumped
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We investigate the effect of time-dependent cyclic-adiabatic driving on the charge transport in quantum junction. We propose a nonequilibrium Greens function formalism to study statistics of the charge pumped (at zero bias) through the junction. The formulation is used to demonstrate charge pumping in a single electronic level coupled to two (electronic) reservoirs with time dependent couplings. Analytical expression for the average pumped current for a general cyclic driving is derived. It is found that for zero bias, for a certain class of driving, the Berry phase contributes only to the odd cumulants. To contrast, a quantum master equation formulation does not show Berry-phase effect at all.
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