Phase transitions in dissipative quantum transport and mesoscopic nuclear spin pumping
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Rudner, M. S.
Levitov, Leonid
Date Issued
October 2010
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Physical Review B
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American Physical Society
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Rudner, M. S. and L. S. Levitov. "Phase transitions in dissipative quantum transport and mesoscopic nuclear spin pumping." Physical Review B 82.15 (2010): 155418. © 2010 The American Physical Society
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Abstract
Topological phase transitions can occur in the dissipative dynamics of a quantum system when the ratio of matrix elements for competing transport channels is varied. Here we establish a relation between such behavior in a class of non-Hermitian quantum walk problems [M. S. Rudner and L. S. Levitov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 065703 (2009)] and nuclear spin pumping in double quantum dots, which is mediated by the decay of a spin-blockaded electron triplet state in the presence of spin-orbit and hyperfine interactions. The transition occurs when the strength of spin-orbit coupling exceeds the strength of the net hyperfine coupling and results in the complete suppression of nuclear spin pumping. Below the transition point, nuclear pumping is accompanied by a strong reduction in current due to the presence of nondecaying “dark states” in this regime. Due to its topological character, the transition is expected to be robust against dephasing of the electronic degrees of freedom.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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