ThermoElectric transport properties of a chain of quantum dots with self-consistent reservoirs

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 709-748

  Jacquet, Philippe A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Entropy production; Landauer B ttiker scattering approach; Ohm and Fourier laws; Onsager relations; Quantum dots; Quantum transport; Random matrix theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 62949239168     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-009-9697-1     Document Type: Article

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