Phys. Rev. E 81, 041106 (2010) - Quantum-dot Carnot engine at maximum power

Quantum-dot Carnot engine at maximum power

Massimiliano Esposito, Ryoichi Kawai, Katja Lindenberg, and Christian Van den Broeck

Phys. Rev. E 81, 041106 – Published 12 April 2010

Abstract

We evaluate the efficiency at maximum power of a quantum-dot Carnot heat engine. The universal values of the coefficients at the linear and quadratic order in the temperature gradient are reproduced. Curzon-Ahlborn efficiency is recovered in the limit of weak dissipation.

Received 13 January 2010

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.81.041106

©2010 American Physical Society

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Massimiliano Esposito

Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP 231, Campus Plaine, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium

Department of Physics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1300 University Boulevard, Birmingham, Alabama 35294-1170, USA

Katja Lindenberg

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and BioCircuits Institute, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0340, USA

Christian Van den Broeck

Hasselt University, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium

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Vol. 81, Iss. 4 — April 2010

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