Riku’s paper with Mike Ridley on charge pumping in ac-driven graphene nanoribbons has been published in Physical Review B. Congrats!
Popular summary: Typically, electronic current flowing through a conductor needs a net voltage to be applied across the conductor. However, applying an alternating voltage, which is zero on average, may induce a direct current. This mechanism is known in the engineering literature as AC-DC conversion or rectification. Here we investigated this mechanism in a quantum transport setup consisting of graphene nanoribbons, and derived some general “rules of thumb” for quantum pumping.