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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 15: Statistical Physics far from equilibrium

DY 15.9: Talk

Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 12:00–12:15, MA 004

Current fluctuation theorems under incomplete monitoring — •Thilo Krause, Gernot Schaller, and Tobias Brandes — Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin

We demonstrate the validity of the fluctuation theorem for a double quantum dot surrounded by four terminals within the Born-, Markov- and secular approximations beyond the Coulomb-blockade regime. The electronic tunneling to two fermionic contacts conserves the total number of electrons, and the internal tunneling is phonon-assisted by two bosonic baths. Adapted choice of thermodynamic parameters between the baths may drive a current against an existing electric or thermal gradient. We study the apparent violation of the fluctuation theorem when only some of the energy and matter currents are monitored.

T. Krause, G. Schaller, and T. Brandes, Phys. Rev. B 84, 195113 (2011).