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The frequency-dependent spectrum of current fluctuations through nano-scale channels is studied using analytical and computational techniques. Using a stochastic Nernst-Planck description and neglecting the interactions between the ions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-04 Mira Zorkot , Ramin Golestanian

In mesoscopic systems conductance fluctuations are a sensitive probe of electron dynamics and chaotic phenomena. We show that the conductance of a purely classical chaotic system with either fully chaotic or mixed phase space generically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Hennig , R. Fleischmann , L. Hufnagel , T. Geisel

We calculate the distribution of current fluctuations in two simple exclusion models. Although these models are classical, we recover even for small systems such as a simple or a double barrier, the same distibution of current as given by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Philippe-E. Roche , Bernard Derrida , Benoit Doucot

Current-voltage characteristics of resonant-tunneling structures often exhibit intrinsic bistabilities. In the bistable region of the I-V curve one of the two current states is metastable. The system switches from the metastable state to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 O. A. Tretiakov , K. A. Matveev

We propose an effective field theory describing the time dependent fluctuations of electrons in conducting systems, generalizing the well known kinetic theory of fluctuations. On several examples, we show its equivalence, (when quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-22 D. B. Gutman , A. D. Mirlin , Yuval Gefen

We derive the distribution of particle currents for a system of interacting active Brownian particles in the long time limit using large deviation theory and a weighted many body expansion. We find the distribution is non-Gaussian, except…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-19 Trevor GrandPre , David T. Limmer

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Heidi Forster , Markus Buttiker

Electrical conductivity measurements on a 2D packing of metallic beads have been performed to study internal rearrangements in weakly pertubed granular materials. Small thermal perturbations lead to large non gaussian conductance…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-26 D. Bonamy , L. Laurent , Ph. Claudin , J. -Ph Bouchaud , F. Daviaud

Current is a characteristic feature of nonequilibrium systems. In stochastic systems, these currents exhibit fluctuations constrained by the rate of dissipation in accordance with the recently discovered thermodynamic uncertainty relation.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-30 Todd R. Gingrich , Jordan M. Horowitz

We study fluctuations of particle absorption by a three-dimensional domain with multiple absorbing patches. The domain is in contact with a gas of interacting diffusing particles. This problem is motivated by living cell sensing via…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-28 Tal Agranov , Baruch Meerson

Microreversibility rules the fluctuations of the currents flowing across open systems in nonequilibrium (or equilibrium) steady states. As a consequence, the statistical cumulants of the currents and their response coefficients at arbitrary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-15 Maximilien Barbier , Pierre Gaspard

Diffusion of electrons in a two-dimensional system with time-dependent random potentials is investigated numerically. In the absence of spin-orbit scattering, the conductivity shows universal weak localization correction. In the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Takeshi Nakanishi , Tomi Ohtsuki

Noise-induced switching between coexisting metastable states occurs in a wide range of far-from-equilibrium systems including micro-mechanical oscillators, epidemiological and climate change models, and nonlinear electronic transport in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-01 Stephen W. Teitsworth , Matthew E. Olson , Yuriy Bomze

We study the phase distribution around a vortex in uniform motion. We consider both the cases of neutral and charged superfluids. The motion of the vortex causes the density of the system to fluctuate. This in turn produces a compensating…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 D. M. Gaitonde

Using a generalisation of the detailed balance for systems maintained out of equilibrium by contact with 2 reservoirs at unequal temperatures or at unequal densities, we recover the fluctuation theorem for the large deviation funtion of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Bodineau , B. Derrida

It this paper we consider various methods for measuring current fluctuations. It is shown, that the {\it temporal} zero-point fluctuations of current are measurable in a natural set-ups.

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-04 G. B. Lesovik

We adopt a stochastic approach to study the charge transport in transistors. In this approach, the hole and electron densities are ruled by diffusion-reaction stochastic partial differential equations satisfying local detailed balance…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-17 Jiayin Gu

We investigate the fluctuations of the time elapsed until the electric charge transferred through a conductor reaches a given threshold value. For this purpose, we measure the distribution of the first-passage times for the net number of…

We analytically evaluate the large deviation function in a simple model of classical particle transfer between two reservoirs. We illustrate how the asymptotic large time regime is reached starting from a special propagating initial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Upendra Harbola , Christian Van den Broeck , Katja Lindenberg

We formulate a general approach which describes statistics of current fluctuations in mesoscopic coherent conductors at arbitrary frequencies and in the presence of interactions. Applying this approach to the non-interacting case, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 A. V. Galaktionov , D. S. Golubev , A. D. Zaikin