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Vibration-induced modulation of magnetic anisotropy in a magnetic molecule
We theoretically analyze the spectrum of a magnetic molecule when its charge
and spin can couple to the molecular vibrations. More specifically, we show
that the interplay between charge-vibron and spin-vibron coupling leads to a
renormalization of the magnetic anisotropy parameters of the molecule. This
effect is discussed for a model device consisting of an individual magnetic
molecule embedded in a junction. We study the transport properties of the
device and illustrate how the differential conductance is affected by the
vibrationally induced renormalization of the magnetic anisotropy. Depending on
the total molecular spin and the bare (intrinsic) magnetic anisotropy, the
induced modulation can lead to visible shifts and crossings in the spectrum,
and it can even be the cause of a transport blockade. It is therefore of
particular interest to use mechanically controllable break junctions, since in
such a case, the relevant coupling between the molecular spin and vibrations
can be controlled via deformations of the molecule when stretching or
compressing the junction.Comment: 18 pages, 7 figures, version as publishe
Adiabatic charge and spin pumping through quantum dots with ferromagnetic leads
We study adiabatic pumping of electrons through quantum dots attached to
ferromagnetic leads. Hereby we make use of a real-time diagrammatic technique
in the adiabatic limit that takes into account strong Coulomb interaction in
the dot. We analyze the degree of spin polarization of electrons pumped from a
ferromagnet through the dot to a nonmagnetic lead (N-dot-F) as well as the
dependence of the pumped charge on the relative leads' magnetization
orientations for a spin-valve (F-dot-F) structure. For the former case, we find
that, depending on the relative coupling strength to the leads, spin and charge
can, on average, be pumped in opposite directions. For the latter case, we find
an angular dependence of the pumped charge, that becomes more and more
anharmonic for large spin polarization in the leads.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures, published in Phys. Rev.
Energy and power fluctuations in ac-driven coherent conductors
Using a scattering matrix approach we study transport in coherent conductors
driven by a time-periodic bias voltage. We investigate the role of
electron-like and hole-like excitations created by the driving in the energy
current noise and we reconcile previous studies on charge current noise in this
kind of systems. The energy noise reveals additional features due to
electron-hole correlations. These features should be observable in power
fluctuations. In particular, we show results for the case of a harmonic and
bi-harmonic driving and of Lorentzian pulses applied to a two-terminal
conductor, addressing the recent experiments of Refs. 1 and 2.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figure
Correlations between charge and energy current in ac-driven coherent conductors
We study transport in coherent conductors driven by a time-periodic bias
voltage. We present results of the charge and energy noise and complement them
by a study of the mixed noise, namely the zero-frequency correlator between
charge and energy current. The mixed noise presents interference contributions
and transport contributions, showing features different from those of charge
and energy noise. The mixed noise can be accessed by measuring the correlator
between the fluctuations of the power provided to the system and the charge
current.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figur
Two-particle non-local Aharonov-Bohm effect from two single-particle emitters
We propose a mesoscopic circuit in the quantum Hall effect regime comprising
two uncorrelated single-particle sources and two distant Mach-Zehnder
interferometers with magnetic fluxes, which allows in a controllable way to
produce orbitally entangled electrons. Two-particle correlations appear as a
consequence of erasing of which path information due to collisions taking place
at distant interferometers and in general at different times. The two-particle
correlations manifest themselves as an Aharonov-Bohm effect in noise while the
current is insensitive to magnetic fluxes. In an appropriate time-interval the
concurrence reaches a maximum and a Bell inequality is violated.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, published in Phys. Rev. Let
Shaping charge excitations in chiral edge states with a time-dependent gate voltage
We study a coherent conductor supporting a single edge channel in which
alternating current pulses are created by local time-dependent gating and sent
on a beam-splitter realized by a quantum point contact. The current response to
the gate voltage in this setup is intrinsically linear. Based on a fully
self-consistent treatment employing a Floquet scattering theory, we analyze the
effect of different voltage shapes and frequencies, as well as the role of the
gate geometry on the injected signal. In particular, we highlight the impact of
frequency-dependent screening on the process of shaping the current signal. The
feasibility of creating true single-particle excitations with this method is
confirmed by investigating the suppression of excess noise, which is otherwise
created by additional electron-hole pair excitations in the current signal
Dephasing due to quasiparticle tunneling in fluxonium qubits: a phenomenological approach
The fluxonium qubit has arisen as one of the most promising candidate devices
for implementing quantum information in superconducting devices, since it is
both insensitive to charge noise (like flux qubits) and insensitive to flux
noise (like charge qubits). Here, we investigate the stability of the quantum
information to quasiparticle tunneling through a Josephson junction.
Microscopically, this dephasing is due to the dependence of the quasiparticle
transmission probability on the qubit state. We argue that on a
phenomenological level the dephasing mechanism can be understood as originating
from heat currents, which are flowing in the device due to possible effective
temperature gradients, and their sensitivity to the qubit state. The emerging
dephasing time is found to be insensitive to the number of junctions with which
the superinductance of the fluxonium qubit is realised. Furthermore, we find
that the dephasing time increases quadratically with the shunt-inductance of
the circuit which highlights the stability of the device to this dephasing
mechanism.Comment: published versio
Zero-frequency noise in adiabatically driven, interacting quantum systems
We investigate current-current correlations of adiabatic charge pumping
through interacting quantum dots weakly coupled to reservoirs. To calculate the
zero-frequency noise for a time-dependently driven system, possibly in the
presence of an additional dc bias, we perform within a real-time diagrammatic
approach a perturbative expansion in the tunnel coupling to the reservoirs in
leading and next-to-leading order. We apply this formalism to study the
adiabatic correction to the zero-frequency noise, i.e., the pumping noise, in
the case of a single-level quantum dot charge pump. If no stationary bias is
applied, the adiabatic correction shows Coulomb-interaction-induced deviations
from the fluctuation-dissipation theorem. Furthermore, we show that the
adiabatic correction to the Fano factor carries information about the coupling
asymmetry and is independent of the choice of the pumping parameters. When
including a time-dependent finite bias, we find that there can be pumping noise
even if there is zero adiabatically pumped charge. The pumping noise also
indicates the respective direction of the bias-induced current and the pumping
current
Gauge freedom in observables and Landsbergs nonadiabatic geometric phase: pumping spectroscopy of interacting open quantum systems
We set up a general density-operator approach to geometric steady-state
pumping through slowly driven open quantum systems. This approach applies to
strongly interacting systems that are weakly coupled to multiple reservoirs at
high temperature, illustrated by an Anderson quantum dot, but shows potential
for generalization. Pumping gives rise to a nonadiabatic geometric phase that
can be described by a framework originally developed for classical dissipative
systems by Landsberg. This geometric phase is accumulated by the transported
observable (charge, spin, energy) and not by the quantum state. It thus differs
radically from the adiabatic Berry-Simon phase, even when generalizing it to
mixed states, following Sarandy and Lidar. Importantly, our geometric
formulation of pumping stays close to a direct physical intuition (i) by tying
gauge transformations to calibration of the meter registering the transported
observable and (ii) by deriving a geometric connection from a driving-frequency
expansion of the current. Our approach provides a systematic and efficient way
to compute the geometric pumping of various observables, including charge,
spin, energy and heat. Our geometric curvature formula reveals a general
experimental scheme for performing geometric transport spectroscopy that
enhances standard nonlinear spectroscopies based on measurements for static
parameters. We indicate measurement strategies for separating the useful
geometric pumping contribution to transport from nongeometric effects. Finally,
we highlight several advantages of our approach in an exhaustive comparison
with the Sinitsyn-Nemenmann full-counting statistics (FCS) approach to
geometric pumping of an observable`s first moment. We explain how in the FCS
approach an "adiabatic" approximation leads to a manifestly nonadiabatic result
involving a finite retardation time of the response to parameter driving.Comment: Major changes: the text was reorganized and improved throughout.
Several typos have been fixed: Note in particular in Eq. (87), (F3) and an
important comment after (107). Throughout Sec V the initial time was
incorrectly set to 0 instead of t_
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