LAUSR.org creates dashboard-style pages of related content for over 1.5 million academic articles. Sign Up to like articles & get recommendations!

Quantized charge pump of massive Dirac electrons

Photo from wikipedia

We study a new scheme to realize a quantized two-parameter charge pump based on massive Dirac electrons. It is shown that the two time-dependent and out-of-phase staggered potentials introduced in… Click to show full abstract

We study a new scheme to realize a quantized two-parameter charge pump based on massive Dirac electrons. It is shown that the two time-dependent and out-of-phase staggered potentials introduced in graphene can pump out an integer number of electrons in a pumping cycle as long as the Fermi energy resides in the effective energy gap opened by pumping potentials. The dependence of the pumped charge per mode on the pumping phase or the dynamic phase exhibits a binary alternation from $+e$ to $\ensuremath{-}e$. This quantization has a topological origin and can be accounted for by adiabatic evolution of the topologically protected interfacial state forming between the two pumping sources.

Keywords: pump; charge; dirac electrons; massive dirac; charge pump

Journal Title: Physical Review B
Year Published: 2017

Link to full text (if available)


Share on Social Media:                               Sign Up to like & get
recommendations!

Related content

More Information              News              Social Media              Video              Recommended



                Click one of the above tabs to view related content.