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Dissipation and quantum noise in chiral circuitry

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2020-07-28 v2

Abstract

We obtain an empirical relation between the zero temperature, zero frequency quantum noise (S(ω=0)){\small{(}}S{\small{(}}\omega=0{\small{)}}{\small{)}} and the related power dissipation (D){\small{(}}D{\small{)}} for chiral circuitry. We consider the case of single quantum point contact (QPC) which induces inter-edge scattering of electrons among "n""n" number of chiral edges of ν=1\nu=1 quantum Hall state. The ratio of total maximum power dissipation generated at the QPC (DtotalD_{total}) to the sum of auto-correlated noise generated in the chiral edge channels emanating out of the QPC region (StotalS_{total}) is shown to be, Dtotal/Stotal(ω=0)=V/4eD_{total}/S_{total}{\small{(}}\omega=0{\small{)}} = V/{\small{}}4 e{\small{}} where ee is the electronic charge and VV is the voltage imposed on any one of the "nn" incoming edge channels while keeping remaining "n1n-1" edge channels grounded. This implies that this ratio is universal except for a linear voltage bias dependence, i.e., it is independent of details of the scattering matrix (SS-matrix) of the QPC region. Here the maximum power dissipation in each chiral edge is defined as the rate at which energy would be lost if the non-equilibrium distribution of electrons generated by the QPC region in each chiral edge is equilibrated to the corresponding zero temperature Fermi distribution. Further, for Zn{\cal Z}_n symmetric SS-matrix, we show that the universal behaviour persists even when all the bias voltages imposed on the incoming edge channels are kept finite and distinct.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1811.07289,
  title  = {Dissipation and quantum noise in chiral circuitry},
  author = {Disha Wadhawan and Sourin Das},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.07289},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

7 pages, 4 figures

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