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Comment on "Single-parameter quantum charge and spin pumping in armchair graphene nanoribbons" (arXiv:1206.3435v1, by Zhou and Wu)

In their recent submission arXiv:1206.3435v1 Zhou and Wu addressed the charge and spin pumping in an armchair graphene nanoribbon connected to magnetic and/or nonmagnetic leads at zero bias. They used thereby a pumping current formula based on time-reversal symmetry. In their appendix they made, based on their formulas, a number of claims concerning our recent works [K. -H. Ding, Z. -G. Zhu, and J. Berakdar, Phys. Rev. B 84, 115433 (2011)] on the laser modification of the spin-dependent current in an extended graphene monolayer contacted to two magnetic leads under a finite bias. Below we show in detail that the physical system considered by us is conceptually different from that of Zhou and Wu (arXiv:1206.3435v1) and cannot be treated with their theory for fundamental reasons (e.g., the time-reversal symmetry is inherently broken in our case due to the presence of the magnetic leads and the dc current generated by the finite bias). Hence, the statements of Zhou and Wu based on a comparison of their results with ours are scientifically groundless.