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We develop a comprehensive framework for characterizing fluctuations in quantum transport and nonequilibrium thermodynamics using two complementary approaches: full counting statistics and first-passage times. Focusing on open quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-12 Paul Menczel , Christian Flindt , Fredrik Brange , Franco Nori , Clemens Gneiting

The formalism of continuous-time quantum walks on graphs has been widely used in the study of quantum transport of energy and information, as well as in the development of quantum algorithms. In experimental settings, however, there is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Leonardo Novo , Sofia Ribeiro

We discuss how to detect fluctuating spin currents and derive full counting statistics of electron spin transfers. It is interesting to consider several detectors in series that simultaneously monitor different components of the spins…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Antonio Di Lorenzo , Yuli V. Nazarov

Periodic driving of quantum dots is analyzed as a basis for developing dynamic switching devices. We study transport through periodically modulated energy levels which are coupled to leads via tunneling coefficients. Utilizing Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Jan Mathis Giesen , Daniel Weber , Sebastian Eggert

Electron transport in nano-scale structures is strongly influenced by the Coulomb interaction which gives rise to correlations in the stream of charges and leaves clear fingerprints in the fluctuations of the electrical current. A complete…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-11 Niels Ubbelohde , Christian Fricke , Christian Flindt , Frank Hohls , Rolf J. Haug

We investigate the full counting statistics (FCS) of spin-conserving and spin-flip charge transitions in Pauli-spin blockade regime of a GaAs double quantum dot. A theoretical model is proposed to evaluate all spin-conserving and spin-flip…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Sadashige Matsuo , Kazuyuki Kuroyama , Shunsuke Yabunaka , Sascha R. Valentin , Arne Ludwig , Andreas D. Wieck , Seigo Tarucha

Scattering theory is a standard tool for the description of transport phenomena in mesoscopic systems. Here, we provide a detailed derivation of this method for nano-scale conductors that are driven by oscillating electric or magnetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-01 Kay Brandner

We investigate bias-driven non-equilibrium quantum phase transitions in a paradigmatic quantum-transport setup: an interacting quantum dot coupled to non-interacting metallic leads. Using the Random Phase Approximation, which is exact in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-29 José F. B. Afonso , Stefan Kirchner , Pedro Ribeiro

Mesoscopic systems -- small electric circuits working in quantum regime -- offer us a unique experimental stage to explorer quantum transport in a tunable and precise way. The purpose of this Review is to show how they can contribute to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-12 Kensuke Kobayashi

The steady-state electronic transport across periodically driven systems can be efficiently addressed using Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker formalism. The time-dependent nonequilibrium Green's function theory then may be adapted for developing direct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-17 Oleksandr Balabanov

Floquet dynamical quantum phase transitions (FDQPTs) are signified by recurrent nonanalytic behaviors of observables in time. In this work, we introduce a quench-free and generic approach to engineer and control FDQPTs for both pure and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-30 J. Naji , R. Jafari , Longwen Zhou , A. Langari

Exact numerical results for the full counting statistics (FCS) of a one-dimensional tight-binding model of noninteracting electrons are presented at finite temperatures using an identity recently presented by Abanov and Ivanov. A similar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 K. Schönhammer

The Full Counting Statistics (FCS) is studied for a one-dimensional system of non-interacting fermions with and without disorder. For two unbiased $L$ site lattices connected at time $t=0$, the charge variance increases as the natural…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 G. C. Levine , M. J. Bantegui , J. A. Burg

The total entropy production generated by the dynamics of an externally driven systems exchanging energy and matter with multiple reservoirs and described by a master equation is expressed as the sum of three contributions, each…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-01 Massimiliano Esposito , Upendra Harbola , Shaul Mukamel

Motivated by recent real-time electron counting experiments, we evaluate the full counting statistics (FCS) for the probability distribution of the electron number inside a quantum dot which is weakly coupled to source and drain leads. A…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yasuhiro Utsumi

The electronic energy levels and optical transitions of a semiconductor quantum dot are subject to dynamics within the solid-state environment. In particular, fluctuating electric fields due to nearby charge traps or other quantum dots…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-07 Clemens Matthiesen , Megan J. Stanley , Maxime Hugues , Edmund Clarke , Mete Atature

Quantum transport in the presence of time-dependent drives is dominated by quantum interference and many-body effects at low temperatures. For a periodic driving, the analysis of the full counting statistics revealed the elementary events…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 Matthias Hübler , Wolfgang Belzig

We have formulated the problem of electron transport through interacting quantum dot system in the framework of self-consistent perturbation theory, and show that the current conservation condition is guaranteed due to the gauge invariant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Guo-Hui Ding , Bing Dong

We study single-electron transport through a double quantum dot (DQD) monitored by a capacitively coupled quantum point-contact (QPC) electrometer. We derive the full counting statistics for the coupled DQD - QPC system and obtain the joint…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-16 D. S. Golubev , Y. Utsumi , M. Marthaler , Gerd Schoen

A theoretical study is reported of electron transport at finite temperature in a double quantum dot (DQD) capacitively coupled to a quantum point contact (QPC). Starting from a Hamiltonian model, a master equation is obtained for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Gregory Bulnes Cuetara , Massimiliano Esposito , Gernot Schaller , Pierre Gaspard