1205.3749 (Chenjie Wang et al.)

Chirality, causality, and fluctuation-dissipation theorems in
non-equilibrium steady states    [PDF]

Chenjie Wang, D. E. Feldman

Edges of some quantum Hall liquids and a number of other systems exhibit chiral transport: excitations can propagate in one direction only, e.g., clockwise. We derive a family of fluctuation-dissipation relations in non-equilibrium steady states of such chiral systems. The theorems connect nonlinear response with fluctuations far from thermal equilibrium and hold only in case of chiral transport. They can be used to test chiral or non-chiral character of the system.

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