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Mesoscopic Coulomb drag, broken detailed balance and fluctuation relations
When a biased conductor is put in proximity with an unbiased conductor a drag
current can be induced in the absence of detailed balance. This is known as the
Coulomb drag effect. However, even in this situation far away from equilibrium
where detailed balance is explicitly broken, theory predicts that fluctuation
relations are satisfied. This surprising effect has, to date, not been
confirmed experimentally. Here we propose a system consisting of a capacitively
coupled double quantum dot where the nonlinear fluctuation relations are
verified in the absence of detailed balance.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Scattering theory of nonlinear thermoelectric transport
We investigate nonlinear transport properties of quantum conductors in
response to both electrical and thermal driving forces. Within scattering
approach, we determine the nonequilibrium screening potential of a generic
mesoscopic system and find that its response is dictated by particle and
entropic injectivities which describe the charge and entropy transfer during
transport. We illustrate our model analyzing the voltage and thermal
rectification of a resonant tunneling barrier. Importantly, we discuss
interaction induced contributions to the thermopower in the presence of large
temperature differences.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures; slightly shortened version to fulfill the
journal's requirement
On the validity and breakdown of the Onsager symmetry in mesoscopic conductors interacting with environments
We investigate magnetic-field asymmetries in the linear transport of a
mesoscopic conductor interacting with its environment. Interestingly, we find
that the interaction between the two systems causes an asymmetry only when the
environment is out of equilibrium. We elucidate our general result with the
help of a quantum dot capacitively coupled to a quantum Hall conductor and
discuss the asymmetry dependence on the environment bias and induced dephasing.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures; discussions clarified; published versio
Coulomb-blockade effect in nonlinear mesoscopic capacitors
We consider an interacting quantum dot working as a coherent source of single
electrons. The dot is tunnel coupled to a reservoir and capacitively coupled to
a gate terminal with an applied ac potential. At low frequencies, this is the
quantum analog of the RC circuit with a purely dynamical response. We
investigate the quantized dynamics as a consequence of ac pulses with large
amplitude. Within a Keldysh-Green function formalism we derive the
time-dependent current in the Coulomb blockade regime. Our theory thus extends
previous models that considered either noninteracting electrons in nonlinear
response or interacting electrons in the linear regime. We prove that the
electron emission and absorption resonances undergo a splitting when the
charging energy is larger than the tunnel broadening. For very large charging
energies, the additional peaks collapse and the original resonances are
recovered, though with a reduced amplitude. Quantization of the charge emitted
by the capacitor is reduced due to Coulomb repulsion and additional plateaus
arise. Additionally, we discuss the differential capacitance and resistance as
a function of time. We find that to leading order in driving frequency the
current can be expressed as a weighted sum of noninteracting currents shifted
by the charging energy.Comment: 13 pages, 9 figures. Minor changes. Published versio
Self-Referencing Fiber-Optic Intensity Sensors Using Ring Resonators and Fiber Bragg Gratings
An improved ring resonator self-referencing technique in a new reflection configuration for remote fiber-optic intensity sensors is demonstrated using fiber Bragg gratings. Sensor sensitivity doubles and a single fiber lead is used. The sensor is interrogated at two subcarrier frequencies having a high rejection of interference from laser source intensity fluctuations and loss in the fiber lead. We experimentally demonstrate the efficiency of the new reflection configuration, the usefulness of the theoretical model proposed, and discuss design parameters for optimum insertion lossesThis work was supported in part by CICYT (TIC2003-03783 and TEC2006-13273-C03-03-MIC), in part by UC3M (FAVICOBIS), in part by CAM (FACTOTEM-CM:S-0505/ESP/000417), and in part by COST 299.Publicad
Minimizing buffer requirements in video-on-demand servers
23rd Euromicro Conference EUROMICRO 97: 'New Frontiers of Information Technology', Budapest, Hungary, 1-4 Sept 1997Memory management is a key issue when designing cost effective video on demand servers. State of the art techniques, like double buffering, allocate buffers in a per stream basis and require huge amounts of memory. We propose a buffering policy, namely Single Pair of Buffers, that dramatically reduces server memory requirements by reserving a pair of buffers per storage device. By considering in detail disk and network interaction, we have also identified the particular conditions under which this policy can be successfully applied to engineer video on demand servers. Reduction factors of two orders of magnitude compared to the double buffering approach can be obtained. Current disk and network parameters make this technique feasible.Publicad
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