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The existence and uniqueness of a steady state for nonequilibrium systems (NESS) is a fundamental subject and a main theme of research in statistical mechanics for decades. For Gaussian systems, such as a chain of harmonic oscillators…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-13 J. -T. Hsiang , B. L. Hu

We give the explicit structure of the functional governing the dynamical density and current fluctuations for a mesoscopic system in a nonequilibrium steady state. Its canonical form determines a generalised Onsager-Machlup theory. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-07 Christian Maes , Karel Netočný

The classical theory of linear response applies to statistical mechanics close to equilibrium. Away from equilibrium, one may describe the microscopic time evolution by a general differentiable dynamical system, identify nonequilibrium…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 David Ruelle

Fluctuation theorem is derived for a quantum current system around a nonequilibrium steady state. It is demonstrated that the fluctuation theorem can be a part of the generalized Green-Kubo formula or a nonlinear response theory of an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-03-30 Hisao Hayakawa

We analyze a generic model of mesoscopic machines driven by the nonadiabatic variation of external parameters. We derive a formula for the probability current; as a consequence we obtain a no-pumping theorem for cyclic processes satisfying…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-02 Jordan M. Horowitz , Christopher Jarzynski

Open system simulations of quantum transport provide a platform for the study of true steady states, Floquet states, and the role of temperature, time-dynamics, and fluctuations, among other physical processes. They are rapidly gaining…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-23 Michael Zwolak

One of the key features of non-equilibrium steady states (NESS) is the presence of nontrivial probability currents. We propose a general classification of NESS in which these currents play a central distinguishing role. As a corollary, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. K. P. Zia , B. Schmittmann

The circuit theory of mesoscopic transport provides a unified framework to describe spin-dependent or superconductivity-related phenomena. We extend this theory to hybrid systems of normal metals, ferromagnets and superconductors. Our main…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-27 Daniel Huertas-Hernando , Yu. V. Nazarov , W. Belzig

A quantum-mechanical framework is set up to describe the full counting statistics of particles flowing between reservoirs in an open system under time-dependent driving. A symmetry relation is obtained which is the consequence of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-07-15 David Andrieux , Pierre Gaspard , Takaaki Monnai , Shuichi Tasaki

We give a method of describing thermodynamical transport phenomena, based on a quantum scattering theoretical approach. We consider a quantum system of particles connected to thermodynamical reservoirs by leads. The effects of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Tooru Taniguchi

Using a new developed Single-Electron approach, we derive the Landauer-type formula for electron transport in arbitrary time-dependent potentials. This formula is applied for randomly fluctuating potentials represented by a dichotomic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-11 Shmuel Gurvitz

Landauer's formula is the standard theoretical tool to examine ballistic transport in nano- and meso-scale junctions, but it necessitates that any variation of the junction with time must be slow compared to characteristic times of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-25 Daniel Gruss , Kirill A. Velizhanin , Michael Zwolak

The original Oberbeck-Boussinesq (OB) equations which are the coupled two dimensional Navier-Stokes(NS) and heat conduction equations have been investigated by E.N. Lorenz half a century ago with Fourier series and opened the way to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-06-28 Imre Feren Barna , Mihály András Pocsai , Sándor Lökös , László Mátyás

A fluctuation theorem is proved for the macroscopic currents of a system in a nonequilibrium steady state, by using Schnakenberg network theory. The theorem can be applied, in particular, in reaction systems where the affinities or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 David Andrieux , Pierre Gaspard

We provide a general macrostatistical formulation of nonequilibrium steady states of reservoir driven quantum systems. This formulation is centred on the large scale properties of the locally conserved hydrodynamical observables, and our…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Geoffrey L. Sewell

We continue the investigation of kinetic models of a system in contact via stochastic interactions with several spatially homogeneous thermal reservoirs at different temperatures. Considering models different from those investigated in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-04-18 Eric A. Carlen , Raffaelle Esposito , Joel L. Lebowitz , Rossana Marra , Clement Mouhot

In this paper, we consider the Beris-Edwards system for incompressible nematic liquid crystal flows. The system under investigation consists of the Navier-Stokes equations for the fluid velocity $\mathbf{u}$ coupled with an evolution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Yuning Liu , Hao Wu , Xiang Xu

The dynamics of an inviscid and incompressible fluid flow on a Riemannian manifold is governed by the Euler equations. Recently, Tao launched a programme to address the global existence problem for the Euler and Navier Stokes equations…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Robert Cardona , Eva Miranda , Daniel Peralta-Salas , Francisco Presas

This work is concerned with the solvability of a Navier-Stokes/$Q$-tensor coupled system modeling the nematic liquid crystal flow on a bounded domain in three dimensional Euclidian space with strong anchoring boundary condition for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-14 Yuning Liu , Wei Wang

Landauer's principle, a cornerstone of quantum information and thermodynamics, appears to be violated when the thermal reservoir is replaced by a squeezed thermal state (STS), owing to the additional thermodynamic resources inherently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Hao Xu