TY - JOUR
T1 - Nonequilibrium fluctuation relations in a quantum coherent conductor
AU - Nakamura, Shuji
AU - Yamauchi, Yoshiaki
AU - Hashisaka, Masayuki
AU - Chida, Kensaku
AU - Kobayashi, Kensuke
AU - Ono, Teruo
AU - Leturcq, Renaud
AU - Ensslin, Klaus
AU - Saito, Keiji
AU - Utsumi, Yasuhiro
AU - Gossard, Arthur C.
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2010/2/25
Y1 - 2010/2/25
N2 - We experimentally demonstrate the validity of nonequilibrium fluctuation relations by using a quantum coherent conductor. In equilibrium the fluctuation-dissipation relation leads to the correlation between current and current noise at the conductor, namely, the Johnson-Nyquist relation. When the conductor is voltage biased so that the nonlinear regime is entered, the fluctuation theorem has predicted similar nonequilibrium fluctuation relations, which hold true even when the Onsager-Casmir relations are broken in magnetic fields. Our experiments qualitatively validate the predictions as the first evidence of this theorem in the nonequilibrium quantum regime.
AB - We experimentally demonstrate the validity of nonequilibrium fluctuation relations by using a quantum coherent conductor. In equilibrium the fluctuation-dissipation relation leads to the correlation between current and current noise at the conductor, namely, the Johnson-Nyquist relation. When the conductor is voltage biased so that the nonlinear regime is entered, the fluctuation theorem has predicted similar nonequilibrium fluctuation relations, which hold true even when the Onsager-Casmir relations are broken in magnetic fields. Our experiments qualitatively validate the predictions as the first evidence of this theorem in the nonequilibrium quantum regime.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.080602
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.080602
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77649153408
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 104
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 8
M1 - 080602
ER -