Statistics of Heat Transfer in Mesoscopic Circuits
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
A method to calculate the statistics of energy exchange between quantum systems is presented. The generating function of this statistics is expressed through a Keldysh path integral. The method is first applied to the problem of heat dissipation from a biased mesoscopic conductor into the adjacent reservoirs. We then consider energy dissipation in an electrical circuit around a mesoscopic conductor. We derive the conditions under which measurements of the fluctuations of heat dissipation can be used to investigate higher order cumulants of the charge counting statistics of a mesoscopic conductor.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0312430,
title = {Statistics of Heat Transfer in Mesoscopic Circuits},
author = {M. Kindermann and S. Pilgram},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0312430},
year = {2009}
}
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9 pages, 6 figures