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Non-equilibrium Fluctuation Relations in a Quantum Coherent Conductor

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2010-03-15 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate the validity of non-equilibrium fluctuation relations by using a quantum coherent conductor. In equilibrium the fluctuation-dissipation relation leads to the correlation between current and current noise at the conductor, namely, Johnson-Nyqusit relation. When the conductor is voltage-biased so that the non-linear regime is entered, the fluctuation theorem has predicted similar non-equilibrium fluctuation relations, which hold true even when the Onsager-Casmir relations are broken in magnetic fields. Our experiments qualitatively validate the predictions as the first evidence of this theorem in the non-equilibrium quantum regime. In the appendix, we give simple deduction of the higher order correlations between the current and the current noise based on the fluctuation theorem.

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@article{arxiv.0911.3470,
  title  = {Non-equilibrium Fluctuation Relations in a Quantum Coherent Conductor},
  author = {Shuji Nakamura and Yoshiaki Yamauchi and Masayuki Hashisaka and Kensaku Chida and Kensuke Kobayashi and Teruo Ono and Renaud Leturcq and Klaus Ensslin and Keiji Saito and Yasuhiro Utsumi and Arthur C. Gossard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.3470},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

4 pages, 4 figures with 1-page appendix.

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