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Quantum-dot Carnot engine at maximum power

Massimiliano Esposito

Ryoichi Kawai

Katja Lindenberg

Christian Van den Broeck

  • 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

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

  • Hasselt University, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium

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

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

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.

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