Issue |
EPL
Volume 96, Number 6, December 2011
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Article Number | 67004 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/96/67004 | |
Published online | 05 December 2011 |
Statistics of the dissipated energy in driven single-electron transitions
1
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, SUNY - Stony Brook, NY 11794-3800, USA
2
Low Temperature Laboratory, Aalto University - P.O. Box 13500, 00076 Aalto, Finland, EU
a
dmitri.averin@stonybrook.edu
Received:
2
September
2011
Accepted:
26
October
2011
We analyze the distribution of heat generated in driven single-electron transitions and discuss the related non-equilibrium work theorems. In the adiabatic limit, the heat distribution is shown to become Gaussian, with the heat noise that, in spite of thermal fluctuations, vanishes together with the average dissipated energy. We show that the transitions satisfy Jarzynski equality for arbitrary drive and calculate the probability of the negative heat values. We also derive a general condition on the heat distribution that connects it to the Jarzynski equality.
PACS: 73.23.Hk – Coulomb blockade; single-electron tunneling / 05.70.Ln – Nonequilibrium and irreversible thermodynamics / 05.40.-a – Fluctuation phenomena, random processes, noise, and Brownian motion
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