Rings and boxes in dissipative environments

Yoav Etzioni, Baruch Horovitz, Pierre Le Doussal

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Abstract

We study a particle on a ring in presence of a dissipative Caldeira-Leggett environment and derive its response to a dc field. We find, through a 2-loop renormalization group analysis, that a large dissipation parameter η flows to a fixed point ηRc= /2π. We also reexamine the mapping of this problem to that of the Coulomb box and show that the relaxation resistance, of recent interest, is quantized for large η. For finite η>ηc we find that a certain average of the relaxation resistance is quantized. We propose a box experiment to measure a quantized noise.

Original languageEnglish
Article number166803
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume106
Issue number16
DOIs
StatePublished - 19 Apr 2011

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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