Microreversibility, fluctuation relations, and response properties in 1D Kitaev Chain

Fan Zhang, Jiayin Gu, H. T. Quan

Published 2022-07-24Version 1

We analytically calculate the cumulant generating function of energy and particle transport in an open 1D Kitaev chain by utilizing the Keldysh technique. The joint distribution of particle and energy currents obeys different fluctuation relations in different regions of the parameter space as a result of $U$(1) symmetry breaking and energy conservation. We discuss the thermoelectricity of the Kitaev chain as a three terminal system and derive an analytical expression of the maximum work power. The response theory up to the second order is explicitly checked, and the result is consistent with the relations derived from the fluctuation relation.