Nonequilibrium extension of onsager relations for thermoelectric effects in mesoscopic conductors

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Iyoda, Eiki ^a   Utsumi, Yasuhiro ^b   Kato, Takeo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fluctuation theorem; Nonequilibrium quantum transport; Onsager relation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951454507     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: 13474073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.79.045003     Document Type: Article

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