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Correlations between charge and heat currents in an interacting quantum dot

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-10-05 v1

Abstract

We consider an interacting quantum dot connected to two reservoirs driven at distinct voltage/temperature and we study the correlations between charge and heat currents first as a function of the applied voltage bias, and second as a function of the temperature gradient between the two reservoirs. The Coulomb interactions in the quantum dot are treated using the Hartree approximation and the dot occupation number is determined self-consistently. The correlators exhibit structures in their voltage dependency which are highly non-linear when the coupling between the dot and the reservoirs is weak, and their behavior with temperature is non-monotonous. Moreover the sign of heat cross-correlator can change contrary to what happens with the charge cross-correlator which is always negative. The presence of Coulomb interactions enlarges the domain of voltage in which the heat cross-correlator is negative.

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@article{arxiv.1510.00512,
  title  = {Correlations between charge and heat currents in an interacting quantum dot},
  author = {Adeline Crépieux and Paul Eyméoud and Fabienne Michelini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.00512},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Proceeding of the SCES 2014 conference

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