Non-Markovian transients in transport across chiral quantum wires using space-time non-equilibrium Green functions
arXiv:2107.05034 · doi:10.1088/1361-648X/ac45b6
Abstract
We study a system of two non-interacting quantum wires with fermions of opposite chirality with a point contact junction at the origin across which tunneling can take place when an arbitrary time-dependent bias between the wires is applied. We obtain the exact dynamical non-equilibrium Green function by solving Dyson's equation analytically. Both the space-time dependent two and four-point functions are written down in a closed form in terms of simple functions of position and time. This allows us to obtain, among other things, the I-V characteristics for an arbitrary time-dependent bias. Our method is a superior alternative to competing approaches to non-equilibrium as we are able to account for transient phenomena as well as the steady state. We study the approach to steady state by computing the time evolution of the equal-time one-particle Green function. Our method can be easily applied to the problem of a double barrier contact whose internal properties can be adjusted to induce resonant tunneling leading to a conductance maximum. We then consider the case of a finite bandwidth in the point contact and calculate the non-equilibrium transport properties which exhibit non-Markovian behaviour. When a subsequently constant bias is suddenly switched on, the current shows a transient build up before approaching its steady state value in contrast to the infinite bandwidth case. This transient property is consistent with numerical simulations of lattice systems using time-dependent DMRG (tDMRG) suggesting thereby that this transient build up is merely due to the presence of a short distance cutoff in the problem description and not on the other details.
arXiv comment22 pages, 6 figures
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