Current in a quantum driven thermostatted system with off-diagonal disorder

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSA.2013.03.011zbMATH Open1395.82106arXiv1303.4560OpenAlexW2083402478MaRDI QIDQ1673002FDOQ1673002

Authors: Marco Pizzi, M. Colangeli, Lamberto Rondoni 

Publication date: 11 September 2018

Published in: Physica A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We analyze a one-dimensional quantum model with off-diagonal disorder, consisting of a sequence of potential energy barriers whose width is a random variable either uniformly or "half-normally" distributed, subjected to an external electric field. We shed light on how the microscopic disorder affects the value of the transmission coefficient, and on the structure of the fluctuations around the solutions corresponding to the regular lattice configuration. We also characterize the asymptotic limit obtained by letting the number of barriers diverge, while their total width is kept constant. Thus, we explain the novelty of our method with respect to the standard thermodynamic limit discussed in the literature, and also evidence the onset of a large deviations principle for the transmission coefficient.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.4560

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zbMATH Keywords

disordered systemsquantum tunnelingthermodynamic limitlength scale separation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Particular ordinary differential operators (Dirac, one-dimensional Schrödinger, etc.) (34L40) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44)

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