Speaker
Dr
Massimiliano Esposito
(Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Description
Fluctuations in electronic currents crossing small devices
can be nowadays resolved at the single electron level. I
will present exact relations, called fluctuation theorems,
which impose universal constraints on these current
fluctuations and which can be seen as a far-from-equilibrium
generalizations of fluctuation-dissipation relations. I will
also show that these relations can help us establish a
thermodynamic description of transport which can be used for
example to study the efficiency of thermoelectric energy
conversion far-from-equilibrium.
Primary author
Dr
Massimiliano Esposito
(Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, Université Libre de Bruxelles)
