Limits of the dynamical approach to non-linear response of mesoscopic systems

Details Limits of the dynamical approach to non-linear response of mesoscopic systems Limits of the dynamical approach to non-linear response of mesoscopic systems

2000-12-12

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0012200v2

Phys. Rev. B, 64 (2001) 045310

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

21 pages, RevTex, 10 eps.figures; final version to appear in Phys.Rev.B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.64.045310

We have considered the nonlinear response of mesoscopic systems of non-interacting electrons to the time-dependent external field. In this consideration the inelastic processes have been neglected and the electron thermalization occurs due to the electron exchange with the reservoirs. We have demonstrated that the diagrammatic technique based on the method of analytical continuation or on the Keldysh formalism is capable to describe the heating automatically. The corresponding diagrams contain a novel element, {\it the loose diffuson}. We have shown the equivalence of such a diagrammatic technique to the solution to the kinetic equation for the electron energy distribution function. We have identified two classes of problems with different behavior under ac pumping. In one class of problems (persistent current fluctuations, Kubo conductance) the observable depends on the electron energy distribution renormalized by heating. In another class of problems (Landauer conductance) the observable is insensitive to heating and depends on the temperature of electron reservoirs. As examples of such problems we have considered in detail the persistent current fluctuations under ac pumping and two types of conductance measurements (Landauer conductance and Kubo conductance) that behave differently under ac pumping.

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