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Statistics of the dissipated energy in driven single-electron transitions

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-05-28 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We analyze the distribution of heat generated in driven single-electron transitions and discuss the related non-equilibrium work theorems. In the adiabatic limit, the heat distribution is shown to become Gaussian, with the heat noise that, in spite of thermal fluctuations, vanishes together with the average dissipated energy. We show that the transitions satisfy Jarzynski equality for arbitrary drive and calculate the probability of the negative heat values. We also derive a general condition on the heat distribution that generalizes the Bochkov-Kuzovlev equality and connects it to the Jarzynski equality.

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@article{arxiv.1105.0416,
  title  = {Statistics of the dissipated energy in driven single-electron transitions},
  author = {Dmitri V. Averin and Jukka P. Pekola},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.0416},
  year   = {2015}
}

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5 pages, 2 figures