1202.1646 (H. Ness et al.)

Non-equilibrium charge susceptibility and dynamical conductance:
Identification of scattering processes in quantum transport    [PDF]

H. Ness, L. K. Dash

We calculate the non-equilibrium charge transport properties of nanoscale
junctions in the steady state and extend the concept of charge susceptibility
to the non-equilibrium conditions. We show that the non-equilibrium charge
susceptibility is related to the non-linear dynamical conductance. In
spectroscopic terms, both contain the same features versus applied bias when
charge fluctuation occurs in the corresponding electronic resonances. However,
we show that while the conductance exhibits features at biases corresponding to
inelastic scattering with no charge fluctuations, the non-equilibrium charge
susceptibility does not. We suggest that measuring both the non-equilibrium
conductance and charge susceptibility in the same experiment will permit us to
differentiate between different scattering processes in quantum transport.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.1646