Correlations between charge and heat currents in an interacting quantum dot
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.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
Proceeding of the SCES 2014 conference