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Quantum fluctuations, through quantum corrections, have the potential to lead to irreversibility in quantum field theory. We consider the virtual ``charge" distribution generated by quantum corrections in the leading log, short range…

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Electrons move along potential or thermal gradients. In the presence of a global gradient, applied e.g. to the two terminals of a conductor, this induces electric charge and heat currents. They can also flow between two equilibrated…

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Thermoelectric materials exhibit correlated transport of charge and heat. The Johnson-Nyquist noise formula $ 4 k_B T R $ for spectral density of voltage fluctuations accounts for fluctuations associated solely with Ohmic dissipation.…

A problem of the definition of the heat transported in thermomagnetic phenomena has been well realized in the late sixties, but not solved up to date. Ignoring this problem, numerous recent theories grossly overestimate the thermomagnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-08-08 A. Sergeev , M. Yu. Reizer , V. Mitin

We use Floquet formalism to study fluctuations in periodically modulated continuous quantum thermal machines. We present a generic theory for such machines, followed by specific examples of sinusoidal, optimal, and circular modulations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 Arpan Das , Shishira Mahunta , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Victor Mukherjee

It has been observed in many numerical simulations, experiments and from various theoretical treatments that heat transport in one-dimensional systems of interacting particles cannot be described by the phenomenological Fourier's law. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-12 Abhishek Dhar , Anupam Kundu , Aritra Kundu

Thermodynamic parameters such as temperature and pressure can be defined from the statistical behavior of a system. Therefore, thermal fluctuation is an inseparable characteristic of these parameters which eventually finds its way into…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-02-28 Alek Bedroya , Mahmud Bahmanabadi

We present a low-temperature experimental test of the fluctuation theorem for electron transport through a double quantum dot. The rare entropy-consuming system trajectories are detected in the form of single charges flowing against the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-20 B. Küng , C. Rössler , M. Beck , M. Marthaler , D. S. Golubev , Y. Utsumi , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin

A formula to calculate the quantum fluctuations of energy in small subsystems of a hot and relativistic gas is derived. We find an increase in fluctuations for subsystems of small sizes, but we agrees with the energy fluctuations in the…

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Thermal fluctuations can play an important role in the buckling of elastic objects at small scales, such as polymers or nanotubes. In this paper, we study the finite-temperature buckling transition of an extensible rod by analyzing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-01-06 Deshpreet Singh Bedi , Xiaoming Mao

The effects of reflecting boundaries on vacuum electric field fluctuations are treated. The presence of the boundaries can enhance these fluctuations and possibly lead to observable effects. The electric field fluctuations lead to voltage…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-03 L. H. Ford

Fluctuation theorems impose constraints on the probability of observing negative entropy production in small systems driven out of equilibrium. The range of validity of fluctuation theorems has been extensively tested for transitions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-21 Léo Granger , Jumna Mehlis , Édgar Roldán , Sergio Ciliberto , Holger Kantz

Input and output current fluctuations in stationary cross-transport systems with two kinds of currents are investigated. In Saryal {\it et al.} [Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 190603 (2021)], upper bounds on input and output current fluctuations are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-30 Naoto Shiraishi , Tan Van Vu , Keiji Saito

The effect of fluctuations on the conductivity of ion channels is investigated. It is shown that modulation of the potential barrier at the selectivity site due to electrostatic amplification of charge fluctuations at the channel mouth…

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The problem of stationary heat transport in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chain is numerically studied showing that the conductivity diverges in the thermodynamic limit. Simulations were performed with time-reversible thermostats, both for small and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Stefano Lepri , Roberto Livi , Antonio Politi

In this perspective we consider how modern statistical mechanics and response theory can be applied to understand the response of polar molecules to an applied electric field and the fluctuations in these systems. Results that are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-08 Debra J. Searles , Stephen Sanderson

The counting statistics of electron transport is theoretically studied in a system with two capacitively coupled parallel transport channels. Each channel is composed of a quantum dot connected by tunneling to two reservoirs. The…

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We consider the thermodynamic potential describing the macroscopic fluctuation of the current and local energy of a general class of Hamiltonian models including aerogels. We argue that this potential is neither analytic nor strictly…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Raphael Lefevere , Mauro Mariani , Lorenzo Zambotti

We study thermal conductance and thermopower of a metallic single-electron transistor beyond the limit of weak tunnel coupling. Employing both a systematic second-order perturbation expansion and a non-perturbative approximation scheme, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Björn Kubala , Jürgen König

A stochastic approach for charge transport in diodes is developed in consistency with the laws of electricity, thermodynamics, and microreversibility. In this approach, the electron and hole densities are ruled by diffusion-reaction…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-06-06 Jiayin Gu , Pierre Gaspard