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Phys. Rev. E 81, 041106 (2010) [6 pages]

Quantum-dot Carnot engine at maximum power

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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

Ryoichi Kawai
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

Received 13 January 2010; published 12 April 2010

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.

© 2010 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.81.041106
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevE.81.041106
PACS:
05.70.Ln, 05.20.-y
 
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