Allowed charge transfers between coherent conductors driven by a time-dependent scatterer

Phys Rev Lett. 2008 Feb 29;100(8):086602. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.086602. Epub 2008 Feb 28.

Abstract

We derive constraints on the statistics of the charge transfer between two conductors in the model of arbitrary time-dependent instant scattering of noninteracting fermions at zero temperature. The constraints are formulated in terms of analytic properties of the generating function: its zeros must lie on the negative real axis. This result generalizes existing studies for scattering by a time-independent scatterer under time-dependent bias voltage.