Violation of Onsager's theorem in approximate master equation approaches
Seja, Kevin Marc ; Kirsanskas, Gediminas LU ; Timm, Carsten and Wacker, Andreas LU
(2016)
In Physical Review B
94(16).
- Abstract
The consistency with Onsager's theorem is examined for commonly used perturbative approaches, such as the Redfield and second-order von Neumann master equations, for thermoelectric transport through nanostructures. We study a double quantum dot, which requires coherences between states for a correct description, and we find that these perturbative approaches violate Onsager's theorem. We show that the deviations from the theorem scale with the lead-coupling strength in an order beyond the one considered systematically in the respective approach.
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- author
- Seja, Kevin Marc
; Kirsanskas, Gediminas
LU
; Timm, Carsten
and Wacker, Andreas
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2016-10-24
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- in
- Physical Review B
- volume
- 94
- issue
- 16
- article number
- 165435
- publisher
- American Physical Society
- external identifiers
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- wos:000390034000011
- scopus:84994337289
- ISSN
- 1098-0121
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevB.94.165435
- language
- English
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- yes
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