Properties of pumping current under microwave field appliedto a quantum dot with over-dot tunneling

Abstract

The evolution-operator approach is applied to studying photon-electron pumping effects on a quantum dot connected to two magnetic leads in the presence of both via-dot and over-dot tunneling channels. It is found that a microwave field applied to the quantum dot may give rise to charge and spin pumpings at zero-bias voltage for asymmetric magnetic junctions. More interestingly, a pure spin current can be pumped for symmetric magnetic junctions in the anti-parallel magnetization configuration, providing a new scheme for the design of spin batteries.