Fluctuation relations without micro-reversibility for two-terminal conductors
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2015-05-13 v2 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
In linear transport, the fluctuation-dissipation theorem relates equilibrium current correlations to the linear conductance coefficient. Theory and experiment have shown that in small electrical conductors the non-linear I-V-characteristic of two-terminal conductor exhibits terms which are asymmetric in magnetic field and thus micro-reversibility is manifestly broken. We discuss a non-equilibrium fluctuation dissipation theorem which is not based on micro-reversibility. It connects the antisymmetric nonlinear conductance with the third cumulant of equilibrium current fluctuations and a noise term that is proportional to temperature, magnetic field and voltage.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0903.1431,
title = {Fluctuation relations without micro-reversibility for two-terminal conductors},
author = {Heidi Forster and Markus Buttiker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.1431},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
6 pages, 2 figures, corrected typos