Irreversibility on the Level of Single-Electron Tunneling

2011/07/31 by B. Küng, C. Rössler, M. Beck +5 · 6 citations
Chemistry · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Drop (telecommunication) #Intuition #Quantum #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #Quantum dot #Quantum tunnelling #cond-mat.mes-hall

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevx.2.011001

published as Physical Review X 2, 011001 (2012)

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Abstract

An ink drop in water spreads and does not go back to the drop form. This intuition about thermodynamic irreversibility in macroscopic systems has only very recently been known to not hold for microscopic systems. A demanding experiment on single-electron tunneling in double quantum dots provides an interesting example of what our new intuition should be.

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