Transport fluctuation relations in interacting quantum pumps
Journal article, 2021

The understanding of out-of-equilibrium fluctuation relations in small open quantum systems has been a focal point of research in recent years. In particular, for systems with adiabatic time-dependent driving, it was shown that the fluctuation relations known from stationary systems do no longer apply due the geometric nature of the pumping current response. However, the precise physical interpretation of the corrected pumping fluctuation relations as well as the role of many-body interactions remained unexplored. Here, we study quantum systems with many-body interactions subject to slow time-dependent driving, and show that fluctuation relations of the charge current can in general not be formulated without taking into account the total energy current put into the system through the pumping process. Moreover, we show that this correction due to the input energy is nonzero only when Coulomb-interactions are present. Thus, fluctuation response relations offer an until now unrevealed opportunity to probe many-body correlations in quantum systems. We demonstrate our general findings at the concrete example of a single-level quantum dot model, and propose a scheme to measure the interaction-induced discrepancies from the stationary case.

fluctuation relations

many-body interaction effects

quantum transport

geometric phases

Author

Roman-Pascal Riwar

Forschungszentrum Jülich

Janine Splettstoesser

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Applied Quantum Physics

New Journal of Physics

1367-2630 (ISSN)

Vol. 23 1 013010

Areas of Advance

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Subject Categories

Other Engineering and Technologies not elsewhere specified

Other Physics Topics

Embedded Systems

DOI

10.1088/1367-2630/abd3c5

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4/22/2021