Statistics of energy dissipation in a quantum dot operating in the cotunneling regime

Abstract

At Coulomb blockade valleys inelastic cotunneling processes generate particle-hole excitations in quantum dots (QDs), and lead to energy dissipation. We have analyzed the probability distribution function (PDF) of energy dissipated in a QD due to such processes during a given time interval. We obtained analytically the cumulant generating function, and extracted the average, variance and Fano factor. The latter diverges as $T^3/(eV{)}^2$ at bias $eV$ smaller than the temperature $T$, and reaches the value $3eV/5$ in the opposite limit. The PDF is further studied numerically. As expected, Crooks fluctuation relation is not fulfilled by the PDF. Our results can be verified experimentally utilizing transport measurements of charge.

5 pages, 3 figures

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• Full counting statistics and shot noise of cotunneling in quantum dots and single-molecule transistors