Dissipation and quantum noise in chiral circuitry
Abstract
We obtain an empirical relation between the zero temperature, zero frequency quantum noise and the related power dissipation for chiral circuitry. We consider the case of single quantum point contact (QPC) which induces inter-edge scattering of electrons among number of chiral edges of quantum Hall state. The ratio of total maximum power dissipation generated at the QPC () to the sum of auto-correlated noise generated in the chiral edge channels emanating out of the QPC region () is shown to be, where is the electronic charge and is the voltage imposed on any one of the "" incoming edge channels while keeping remaining "" 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 (-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 symmetric -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