arxiv: 2603.12956 · v2 · submitted 2026-03-13 · ❄️ cond-mat.mes-hall

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Dynamic charge oscillation in a quantum conductor driven by ultrashort voltage pulses

Lucas Mazzella , Seddik Ouacel , In\`es Safi

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keywords dynamic charge oscillationsultrashort voltage pulsesquantum conductorssublinear DC currentfractional quantum Hallquantum point contactphoto-assisted transportCoulomb interactions

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Dynamic charge oscillations arise in generic quantum conductors from ultrashort voltage pulses whenever their DC current is sublinear at large bias.

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The paper shows that charge oscillations triggered by ultrashort voltage pulses, previously linked to interference in special devices, occur in any quantum conductor provided its DC current grows sublinearly with large bias. This single condition lets the authors derive the oscillations without assuming particular geometries or multiple paths. The result extends perturbatively to strongly interacting conductors and remains intact even for arbitrarily large Coulomb repulsion. The authors work out the case of a quantum point contact in the fractional quantum Hall regime to illustrate the effect and supply an alternative picture based on photo-assisted probabilities.

Core claim

Dynamic charge oscillations as a function of the charge injected by an ultrashort voltage pulse generalize beyond interferometric setups to any quantum conductor whose DC current is sublinear at large bias. The oscillations survive perturbatively in strongly correlated conductors and are therefore robust against arbitrarily strong Coulomb interactions, as demonstrated explicitly for a quantum point contact in the fractional quantum Hall regime.

What carries the argument

The sublinearity of the DC current-bias curve at large bias, which supplies the sole assumption needed to derive the oscillations for a generic conductor without reference to interference or device-specific paths.

If this is right

Oscillations appear in non-interferometric systems such as quantum point contacts.
The effect persists under arbitrarily strong Coulomb interactions in correlated conductors.
A complementary photo-assisted probability picture accounts for the oscillations without invoking propagating paths.
The derivation applies directly to fractional quantum Hall conductors that satisfy the sublinearity condition.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

Pulse-driven charge measurements could serve as a practical test for sublinearity in the I-V characteristics of unknown mesoscopic conductors.
The robustness to interactions suggests the oscillations may appear across a broader class of nonlinear transport systems than those examined here.
Device design in quantum transport could exploit or suppress these oscillations by tuning the high-bias nonlinearity.

Load-bearing premise

The conductor's DC current must grow sublinearly with bias at large values.

What would settle it

Measure the high-bias DC current-voltage curve of a candidate conductor; if it is linear or superlinear rather than sublinear, drive the same conductor with ultrashort voltage pulses and check whether the dynamic charge oscillations disappear.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2603.12956 by In\`es Safi, Lucas Mazzella, Seddik Ouacel.

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Time-dependent driving with ultrashort voltage pulses brings quantum conductors into the non-adiabatic transport regime, where novel dynamical effects emerge. An example of this physics occurs in interferometric systems, where the transmitted charge oscillates as a function of the charge injected by an ultrashort voltage pulse. This behavior has been predicted in a variety of setups, including Fabry-P\'erot and Mach-Zehnder interferometers, and more recently in quantum dots. It is commonly interpreted as resulting from interference between different propagating paths taken by the injected excitation. In this letter, we fully generalize the derivation of such dynamic charge oscillations beyond interferometric devices for a generic quantum conductor with the single assumption that its DC current is sublinear at large bias. Strikingly, they also extend perturbatively to strongly correlated conductors, showing in particular their robustness against arbitrarily strong Coulomb interactions. To illustrate the generality of our approach, we analyze in detail the case of a quantum point contact in the fractional quantum Hall regime, which fulfills the sublinearity condition. We demonstrate that this non-interferometric system exhibit dynamic charge oscillation. Finally, we propose a complementary interpretation of this phenomenon, rooted in the photo-assisted probabilities associated with the voltage pulse.

Editorial analysis

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The paper generalizes dynamic charge oscillations to any sublinear-DC conductor and claims perturbative robustness to arbitrary Coulomb strength, but the interaction extension needs tighter bounds.

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The main takeaway is that dynamic charge oscillations under ultrashort pulses are not limited to interferometers. They follow for any quantum conductor whose DC I-V curve is sublinear at large bias, with an illustration on a fractional quantum Hall point contact and a photo-assisted probability reading of the effect. That generalization is the actual new piece; prior work stayed inside specific geometries. The derivation looks clean on the sublinearity assumption alone, and the photo-assisted interpretation is a useful rephrasing that does not add extra machinery. The perturbative treatment for interactions is presented as showing robustness even at strong Coulomb values. That claim is the soft spot. The stress-test note is right that sublinearity by itself does not automatically bound higher-order corrections when the interaction scale is large; an explicit uniform control on the expansion parameter would be needed to secure the arbitrary-strength statement. Without seeing the full algebra it is hard to judge how tightly that is handled, but the abstract leaves the impression that the control is asserted rather than derived in detail. For a reader working on pulse-driven mesoscopic transport or fractional states, the paper is worth reading for the general argument and the concrete example. It is not yet a finished story on the interacting case, but the non-interacting part stands on its own. I would send it to referees rather than desk-reject; the central idea is simple enough that a careful review can sort out the perturbative details.

Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper claims to generalize dynamic charge oscillations under ultrashort voltage pulses from interferometric devices to any generic quantum conductor, using only the assumption that its DC current is sublinear at large bias. It further extends the result perturbatively to strongly correlated conductors and asserts robustness against arbitrarily strong Coulomb interactions. The approach is illustrated with a quantum point contact in the fractional quantum Hall regime, and an alternative interpretation in terms of photo-assisted probabilities is proposed.

Significance. If the central claims hold, the work would be significant for mesoscopic transport physics. It replaces device-specific interference arguments with a single, testable DC property (sublinearity) and indicates that the oscillations survive strong interactions, thereby widening the class of systems in which the effect can be sought experimentally.

major comments (2)

[§4] §4 (perturbative extension to interactions): The claim of robustness to arbitrarily strong Coulomb interactions rests on a perturbative expansion in pulse amplitude. No explicit bound is given showing that the remainder of the series remains controlled uniformly in the interaction strength; without such control the robustness statement is not secured by the sublinearity premise alone.
[§3.1] §3.1 (generalization step): The derivation that sublinearity of the DC I-V curve implies the existence of charge oscillations is presented as parameter-free, yet the mapping from the DC characteristic to the time-dependent transmitted charge appears to invoke an additional assumption on the form of the scattering matrix or the pulse shape that is not stated explicitly.

minor comments (2)

[Abstract] The abstract contains the phrase 'Strikingly, they also extend'; this should be corrected to first-person language consistent with the rest of the manuscript.
[Figure 3] Figure captions for the QPC-FQHE example would benefit from an explicit statement of the filling factor and the range of pulse amplitudes used in the plots.

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We thank the referee for the careful reading and constructive comments on our manuscript. We address each major comment below and will revise the manuscript to improve clarity and rigor where appropriate.

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Referee: [§4] §4 (perturbative extension to interactions): The claim of robustness to arbitrarily strong Coulomb interactions rests on a perturbative expansion in pulse amplitude. No explicit bound is given showing that the remainder of the series remains controlled uniformly in the interaction strength; without such control the robustness statement is not secured by the sublinearity premise alone.

Authors: We appreciate the referee's observation. The expansion is performed in the amplitude of the voltage pulse while the DC I-V characteristic (which encodes arbitrary Coulomb interactions via the sublinearity condition) is kept fully non-perturbative. The leading-order term responsible for the oscillations is therefore determined solely by the measured DC curve and vanishes only when the pulse amplitude is taken to zero, independently of interaction strength. Higher-order terms are suppressed in this limit. We will revise §4 to state this control explicitly and add a short paragraph clarifying the perturbative regime. revision: yes
Referee: [§3.1] §3.1 (generalization step): The derivation that sublinearity of the DC I-V curve implies the existence of charge oscillations is presented as parameter-free, yet the mapping from the DC characteristic to the time-dependent transmitted charge appears to invoke an additional assumption on the form of the scattering matrix or the pulse shape that is not stated explicitly.

Authors: The referee is correct that the mapping implicitly relies on a generic conductor with energy-independent scattering (or equivalently, on pulses short enough that energy dependence can be neglected). Under this standard assumption the time-dependent transmitted charge is obtained by integrating the DC current response against the pulse profile, and sublinearity then directly implies oscillations. We will revise §3.1 to state this assumption explicitly, thereby making the derivation fully transparent without restricting the class of systems considered. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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Derivation self-contained under external sublinearity assumption

full rationale

The central derivation generalizes dynamic charge oscillations to generic conductors solely from the external input that DC current is sublinear at large bias; this assumption is not derived internally or fitted from the model's own data. The perturbative extension to correlated cases and the photo-assisted probability interpretation follow from standard scattering theory without reducing any prediction to a self-definition, renamed fit, or load-bearing self-citation chain. No equations or steps equate outputs to inputs by construction.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The paper rests on one explicit domain assumption (sublinear DC current at large bias) and standard scattering theory; no free parameters or new entities are introduced in the abstract.

axioms (1)

domain assumption DC current is sublinear at large bias
This is stated as the single assumption enabling the generic derivation.

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