Time-Dependent Transport in Mesoscopic Structures

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent advances in time-dependent transport phenomena in mesoscopic structures, highlighting methods to probe charge dynamics, conductance, and quantum effects in nanoscale systems.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of experimental and theoretical developments in time-dependent mesoscopic transport, including new insights into quantum pumping and photon-assisted processes.

Findings

Analysis of RC-time in mesoscopic capacitors

Dynamic conductance behavior in quantum point contacts

Observation of weak localization effects in chaotic cavities

Abstract

A discussion of recent work on time-dependent transport in mesoscopic structures is presented. The discussion emphasizes the use of time-dependent transport to gain information on the charge distribution and its collective dynamics. We discuss the RC-time of mesoscopic capacitors, the dynamic conductance of quantum point contacts and dynamic weak localization effects in chaotic cavities. We review work on adiabatic quantum pumping and photon-assisted transport, and conclude with a list which demonstrates the wide range of problems which are of interest.