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Charge-current correlation equalities for quantum systems far from equilibrium

Statistical Mechanics 2019-06-19 v3

Abstract

We prove that a recently derived correlation equality between conserved charges and their associated conserved currents for quantum systems far from equilibrium [O.A. Castro-Alvaredo et al., Phys. Rev. X \textbf{6}, 041065 (2016)], is valid under more general conditions than assumed so far. Similar correlation identities, which in generalized Gibbs ensembles give rise to a current symmetry somewhat reminiscent of the Onsager relations, turn out to hold also in the absence of translation invariance, for lattice models, and in any space dimension, and to imply a symmetry of the non-equilibrium linear response functions.

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@article{arxiv.1812.03020,
  title  = {Charge-current correlation equalities for quantum systems far from equilibrium},
  author = {D. Karevski and G. M. Schütz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.03020},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

6 pages, major revision with extension to non-translation invariant setting

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