Nonlinear dissipation in a finite-sized quantum system

Michael Wilkinson

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1989, vol. 157, issue 1, 58-63

Abstract: We consider the effect of an intense, slowly varying electric field ε on a small conducting particle. Landau-Zener transitions provide a mechanism for irreversibly increasing the energy on the electrons in the particle, causing dissipation of the energy of the applied electric field. The rate of dissipation is proportional to ε.32, a result which is universal and different from that of linear response theory. The possibility of observing this effect experimentally is discussed.

Date: 1989
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(89)90278-1

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