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arXiv:1812.03020 · SciPost Physics

Charge-current correlation equalities for quantum systems far from equilibrium

Dragi Karevski, Gunter Markus Schutz

Published Jun 17, 2019• 22 citations
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Abstract

We prove that a recently derived correlation equality between conserved charges and their associated conserved currents for quantum systems far from equilibrium [O.A. Castro-Alvaredo, B. Doyon, and T. Yoshimura, Phys. Rev. X 6, 041065 (2016)], is valid under more general conditions than assumed so far. Similar correlation identities, which in generalized Gibbs ensembles give rise to a current symmetry somewhat reminiscent of the Onsager relations, turn out to hold also in the absence of translation invariance, for lattice models, and in any space dimension, and to imply a symmetry of the non-equilibrium linear response functions.

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10.21468/scipostphys.6.6.068

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