Particle and thermal transport through one dimensional topological systems via Lindblad formalism

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2023.128826MaRDI QIDQ6159847zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yan He, Chih-Chun Chien

Publication date 8 May 2023

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.04163

zbMATH Keywords

quantum transportLindblad equationedge statetopological insulator and superconductor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of association (correlation, canonical correlation, etc.) (62H20) Edge subsets with special properties (factorization, matching, partitioning, covering and packing, etc.) (05C70) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70) Statistical mechanics of semiconductors (82D37) Fermionic systems in quantum theory (81V74)

Abstract: We apply the Lindblad quantum master equation to two examples of one-dimensional topological systems, the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model and Kitaev chain, to study their particle and thermal transport. The steady-state properties are obtained by decomposing fermions into Majorana fermions and extracting their correlation functions. We focus on the particle and thermal currents flowing through the bulk when the system is driven by two reservoirs coupled to the two ends. The ratio of the currents of the SSH model from the topological and trivial regimes with the same bandwidth demonstrates suppression of transport due to the edge states, which couple to the reservoirs but do not participate in transport. A similar comparison cannot be performed for the Kitaev chain because the topological and trivial regimes have different bandwidths, and the edge states are less significant away from the transition. Therefore, the results contrast various topological properties in quantum transport.

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