Absence and recovery of cost-precision tradeoff relations in quantum transport

Abstract

The operation of many classical and quantum systems in nonequilibrium steady state is constrained by cost-precision (dissipation-fluctuation) tradeoff relations, delineated by the thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR). However, coherent quantum electronic nanojunctions can escape such a constraint, showing finite charge current and nonzero entropic cost with vanishing current fluctuations. Here, we analyze the absence, and restoration, of cost-precision tradeoff relations in fermionic nanojunctions under different affinities: voltage and temperature biases. With analytic work and simulations, we show that both charge and energy currents can display the absence of cost-precision tradeoff if we engineer the transmission probability as a boxcar function -- with a perfect transmission and hard energy cutoffs. Specifically for charge current under voltage bias, the standard TUR may be immediately violated as we depart from equilibrium, and it is exponentially suppressed with increased voltage. However, beyond idealized, hard-cutoff energy-filtered transmission functions, we show that realistic models with soft cutoffs or imperfect transmission functions follow cost-precision tradeoffs, and eventually recover the standard TUR sufficiently far from equilibrium. The existence of cost-precision tradeoff relations is thus suggested as a generic feature of realistic nonequilibrium quantum transport junctions.

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