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Tensor networks are employed to characterize the current fluctuations in one-dimensional diffusion-reaction systems. The representative system under study is a semiconducting material where holes and electrons constitute two types of charge…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-16 Jiayin Gu

In the independent electron approximation, the average (energy/charge/entropy) current flowing through a finite sample S connected to two electronic reservoirs can be computed by scattering theoretic arguments which lead to the famous…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Laurent Bruneau , Vojkan Jaksic , Yoram Last , Claude-Alain Pillet

We evaluate the exponentially rare fluctuations of the ionic current for a dilute electrolyte by means of macroscopic fluctuation theory. We consider the fluctuating hydrodynamics of a fluid electrolyte described by a stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-25 Jafar Farhadi , David T. Limmer

We review the properties of electron shuttles, i.e. nanoelectromechanical devices that transport electrons one-by-one by utilizing a combination of electronic and mechanical degrees of freedom. We focus on the extreme quantum limit, where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. P. Jauho , C. Flindt , Tomas Novotny , Andrea Donarini

We calculate current-current correlation functions and find an expression for the zero-frequency noise of multiterminal systems driven by harmonically time-dependent voltages within the Keldysh non-equilibrium Green's functions formalism.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-02 Alvaro Caso , Liliana Arrachea , Gustavo S. Lozano

We identify the operational conditions for maximum power of a nanothermoelectric engine consisting of a single quantum level embedded between two leads at different temperatures and chemical potentials. The corresponding thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-01 Massimiliano Esposito , Katja Lindenberg , Christian Van den Broeck

We derive detailed and integral quantum fluctuation theorems for heat exchange in a quantum correlated bipartite thermal system using the framework of dynamic Bayesian networks. Contrary to the usual two-projective-measurement scheme that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 Kaonan Micadei , Gabriel T. Landi , Eric Lutz

Nanotechnology has not only provided us the possibility of developing quantum machines but also noncanonical power sources able to drive them. Here we focus on studying the performance of quantum machines driven by arbitrary combinations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Sebastian E. Deghi , Raúl A. Bustos-Marún

High-precision low-temperature thermometry is a challenge for experimental quantum physics and quantum sensing. Here we consider a thermometer modelled by a dynamically-controlled multilevel quantum probe in contact with a bath. Dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-17 Victor Mukherjee , Analia Zwick , Arnab Ghosh , Xi Chen , Gershon Kurizki

Quantum thermodynamics aims at extending standard thermodynamics and non-equilibrium statistical physics to systems with sizes well below the thermodynamic limit. A rapidly evolving research field, which promises to change our understanding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Fabrizio Cleri

The first-order superconducting fluctuation corrections to the thermal conductivity of a granular metal are calculated. A suppression of thermal conductivity proportional to $T_c/(T-T_c)$ is observed in a region not too close to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Biagini , R. Ferone , Rosario Fazio , F. W. J. Hekking , V. Tognetti

We demonstrate that persistent current in meso- and nanorings may fluctuate down to zero temperature provided the current operator does not commute with the total Hamiltonian of the system. For a model of a quantum particle on a ring we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-23 Andrew G. Semenov , Andrei D. Zaikin

We study the dynamics of a quantum-coherent thermally isolated Luttinger liquid with noisy Luttinger parameter. To characterize the fluctuations of the absorbed energy in generic noise-driven systems, we first identify two types of energy…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-05-03 Luca D'Alessio , Armin Rahmani

A formalism for quantum many-body systems is proposed through a semiclassical treatment in phase space, allowing us to establish a stochastic thermodynamics incorporating quantum statistics. Specifically, we utilize a stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-23 Zhaoyu Fei

Quantum mechanics can strongly influence the noise properties of mesoscopic devices. To probe this effect we have measured the current fluctuations at high-frequency (5-90 GHz) using a superconductor-insulator-superconductor tunnel junction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Deblock , E. Onac , L. Gurevich , L. P. Kouwenhoven

Upstream neutral modes, counter propagating to charge modes and carrying energy without net charge, had been predicted to exist in some of the fractional quantum Hall states and were recently observed via noise measurements. Understanding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-20 Itamar Gurman , Ron Sabo , Moty Heiblum , Vladimir Umansky , Diana Mahalu

A quantum limit of the thermoelectric efficiency for heterogeneous media with weak links is established with a use of the Landauer-type formulae.

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. A. Ktitorov , V. K. Zaitsev , M. I. Fedorov

A nonequilibrium distribution function of microscopic thermal current is studied by a direct numerical simulation in a thermal conducting steady state of particle systems. Two characteristic temperatures of the thermal current are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-04-01 Satoshi Yukawa , Takashi Shimada , Fumiko Ogushi , Nobuyasu Ito

Possible application of a result contradicting to the second law of thermodynamics is announced. According to this result the chaotic energy of thermal fluctuation can be transformed in electric energy of direct current in an inhomogeneous…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Nikulov

Thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) express a fundamental tradeoff between the precision (inverse scaled variance) of any thermodynamic current by functionals of the average entropy production. Relying on purely variational…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-28 Kyle J. Ray , Alexander B. Boyd , Giacomo Guarnieri , James P. Crutchfield