{
  "id": "0903.0985",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2009-03-05T13:33:28.000Z",
  "updated": "2010-02-02T07:17:09.000Z",
  "title": "Nonequilibrium Extension of Onsager Relations for Thermoelectric Effects of Mesoscopic Conductors",
  "authors": [
    "Eiki Iyoda",
    "Yasuhiro Utsumi",
    "Takeo Kato"
  ],
  "comment": "submitted to Journal of the Physical Society of Japan",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall"
  ],
  "abstract": "We discuss a consequence of time reversal symmetry on thermoelectric effect in nonequilibrium coherent quantum transport. Starting with a quantum version of the fluctuation theorem, we show that there exist universal relations between the Peltier coefficient and the Seebeck coefficient of general mesoscopic systems with Coulomb interaction in a nonlinear regime. This extended Kelvin-Onsager relation may be used to obtain useful information on heat current, e.g. the nonlinear Peltier coefficient, which is difficult to be measured in a usual setup of experiments, only from electric current measurement.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2010-02-02T07:17:09.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "thermoelectric effect",
      "onsager relations",
      "mesoscopic conductors",
      "nonequilibrium extension",
      "nonequilibrium coherent quantum transport"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2009arXiv0903.0985I"
    }
  }
}