{ "id": "0709.2898", "version": "v2", "published": "2007-09-18T18:47:31.000Z", "updated": "2008-04-17T02:05:35.000Z", "title": "Allowed charge transfers between coherent conductors driven by a time-dependent scatterer", "authors": [ "A. G. Abanov", "D. A. Ivanov" ], "comment": "5 pages, no figures, corrected misprints and minor changes in version 2", "journal": "Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 086602 (2008)", "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.086602", "categories": [ "cond-mat.mes-hall" ], "abstract": "We derive constraints on the statistics of the charge transfer between two conductors in the model of arbitrary time-dependent instant scattering of non-interacting fermions at zero temperature. The constraints are formulated in terms of analytic properties of the generating function: its zeroes must lie on the negative real axis. This result generalizes existing studies for scattering by a time-independent scatterer under time-dependent bias voltage.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2008-04-17T02:05:35.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "72.70.+m", "73.23.-b", "73.23.Hk", "05.40.-a" ], "keywords": [ "coherent conductors driven", "charge transfer", "time-dependent scatterer", "arbitrary time-dependent instant", "result generalizes existing studies" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "publisher": "APS", "journal": "Physical Review Letters", "year": 2008, "month": "Feb", "volume": 100, "number": 8, "pages": "086602" }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 5, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2008PhRvL.100h6602A" } } }