Green-Kubo formulas with symmetrized correlation functions for quantum systems in steady states: the shear viscosity of a fluid in a steady shear flow

Abstract

For a quantum system in a steady state with a constant current of heat or particles driven by a temperature or chemical potential difference between two reservoirs attached to the system, the fluctuation theorem for the current was previously shown to lead to the Green-Kubo formula for the linear response coefficient for the current expressed in terms of the symmetrized correlation function of the current density operator. In this article, we show that for a quantum system in a steady state with a constant rate of work done on the system, the fluctuation theorem for a quantity induced in the system also leads to the Green-Kubo formula expressed in terms of the symmetrized correlation function of the induced quantity. As an example, we consider a fluid in a steady shear flow driven by a constant velocity of a solid plate moving above the fluid.

Comments: 34 pages. Minor corrections and changes. An expanded version of Sec.XIV as well as Sec.IX through Sec.XII of arXiv:1104.5190