TY - JOUR
T1 - Symmetry in full counting statistics, fluctuation theorem, and relations among nonlinear transport coefficients in the presence of a magnetic field
AU - Saito, Keiji
AU - Utsumi, Yasuhiro
PY - 2008/9/24
Y1 - 2008/9/24
N2 - We study the full counting statistics of electron transport through multiterminal interacting quantum dots under a finite magnetic field. Microscopic reversibility leads to a symmetry of the cumulant generating function, which generalizes the fluctuation theorem in the context of the quantum transport. Using the symmetry, we derive the Onsager-Casimir relations in the linear transport regime and universal relations among nonlinear transport coefficients. One of the measurable relations is that the nonlinear conductance, the second-order coefficient with respect to the bias voltage, is connected to the third current cumulant in equilibrium, which can be a finite and uneven function of the magnetic field for two-terminal noncentrosymmetric system.
AB - We study the full counting statistics of electron transport through multiterminal interacting quantum dots under a finite magnetic field. Microscopic reversibility leads to a symmetry of the cumulant generating function, which generalizes the fluctuation theorem in the context of the quantum transport. Using the symmetry, we derive the Onsager-Casimir relations in the linear transport regime and universal relations among nonlinear transport coefficients. One of the measurable relations is that the nonlinear conductance, the second-order coefficient with respect to the bias voltage, is connected to the third current cumulant in equilibrium, which can be a finite and uneven function of the magnetic field for two-terminal noncentrosymmetric system.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.115429
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.115429
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:53849105791
SN - 1098-0121
VL - 78
JO - Physical Review B-Condensed Matter
JF - Physical Review B-Condensed Matter
IS - 11
M1 - 115429
ER -