Mesoscopic Mechanism of Adiabatic Charge Transport
- 18 January 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 82 (3) , 608-611
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.82.608
Abstract
We consider adiabatic charge transport through mesoscopic metallic samples caused by a periodically changing external potential. We find that both the amplitude and the sign of the charge transferred through a sample per period are random sample specific quantities. The characteristic magnitude of the charge is determined by the quantum interference.Keywords
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