Non-equilibrium steady states in conformal field theory (Q2513263)

One studies the non-equilibrium steady states of energy and the charge transfer of one-dimensional systems at quantum critical points with unit dynamical exponent, in their low-temperature universal regime. The convergence to non-equilibrium steady states is obtained using the formulation of Hamiltonian reservoirs combined with the scattering-matrix formalism in the framework of conformal field theory (CFT), and the associated large deviation functions for energy and charge transfers are derived. The main characteristic of the approach is to think of CFT as an algebra of local fields and topological defects.