Non-equilibrium current via geometric scatterers

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/47/39/395301MaRDI QIDQ2925158zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pavel Exner, Hagen Neidhardt, Miloš Tater, V. A. Zagrebnov

Publication date 20 October 2014

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.4391

zbMATH Keywords

geometric scattererLandauer-Büttiker formulanon-equilibrium steady states

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric quantization (53D50) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

Abstract: We investigate non-equilibrium particle transport in the system consisting of a geometric scatterer and two leads coupled to heat baths with different chemical potentials. We derive expression for the corresponding current the carriers of which are fermions and analyze numerically its dependence of the model parameters in examples, where the scatterer has a rectangular or triangular shape.

Review text

The purpose of this contribution is to analyze a stationary fermion transport, which generates electric current when the involved particles are charged, between two heat baths connected via a geometric scatterer. As the main result, it is shown that the Landauer-Büttiker formula holds. The main ingredients are Fermi distributions for the thermal statistical distributions of non-interacting fermions in the reservoir, and the quantum transmission probability between the reservoirs.

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