Abstract We study the fluctuations of generic currents in multi-terminal, multi-channel coherent quantum transport settings. In the quantum regime, these fluctuations and the resulting precision differ strongly depending on whether the device is of fermionic or bosonic nature. Using scattering theory, we show that the precision is bounded by constraints set by the entropy production and by the activity in the spirit of thermodynamic or kinetic uncertainty relations, valid for fermionic and bosonic quantum systems also in the absence of time-reversal symmetry. Furthermore, we derive a combined thermodynamic kinetic uncertainty relation, which is tight over a wide range of parameters and can hence predict the reachable precision of a device. Since these constraints can be expressed in terms of observables accessible in transport measurements, such as currents and bandwidth, we foresee that the tight thermodynamic kinetic uncertainty-like bounds are also useful as an inference tool: they can be exploited to estimate entropy production from transport observables, such as the charge current and its noise, which are more easily accessible in experiment.
Renormalized expressions for the transport coefficients of a normal quantum fluid are derived from a nonlocal kinetic equation. As was shown in the classical case by Forster and Martin and by R\'esibois, the expressions for the transport coefficients separate naturally into "kinetic" and "direct" parts. The kinetic terms are proportional to matrix elements of the inverse of the kinetic kernel, and have the same general structure as the "bare" transport coefficients obtained from a local Boltzmann equation. The direct terms are proportional to matrix elements of the kernel itself, and have no counterpart in calculations based on a local kinetic equation, as in the kinetic theory of gases. We evaluate the transport coefficients using the weak-coupling approximation to the kernel derived in a previous paper. Results are given, first, for both Bose and Fermi fluids at arbitrary temperature, and then for the Fermi fluid near
T=0, where complete solutions are obtained. It is found that the direct parts of the shear viscosity and thermal conductivity are of higher order in
T than the kinetic parts, and are therefore negligible at very low temperature. The kinetic parts have the same leading temperature dependence as the predictions of the Landau theory. For the bulk viscosity, however, the direct and kinetic contributions begin at the same order (
T2) in the temperature.
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