Theory Seminar: Quantum transport by time-dependent perturbation
e-mail: kato@issp.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Linear response theory often starts discussing the effect of time-dependent perturbations with frequency omega and then takes the zero-frequency limit to obtain intrinsic properties of many-body system, which is in principle equivalent to fluctuation-dissipation theorem. When we modulate more than one parameters, there appears a new time-dependent transport, called pumped transport. Recently, a lot of interests are focused to the lowest-order non-adiabatic correction to the pumped
transport in a static (adiabatic) limit, possibly because this can be a controlled system that can tackle the problem of non-equilibrium statistical physics. Both in classical and quantum setups, this contribution had shown to have a topological character, being expressed by a surface integral of a “Berry” curvature. In this presentation, I review recent activities of this field and show our approach based on generalized quantum master equation. Finally, I explain our quantum transport results in quantum dot system coupled two leads, with time-dependent modulation of a tunneling phase and magnetic fields.