Quantum-dot Carnot engine at maximum power
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.
- Publication:
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Physical Review E
- Pub Date:
- April 2010
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1001.2192
- Bibcode:
- 2010PhRvE..81d1106E
- Keywords:
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- 05.70.Ln;
- 05.20.-y;
- Nonequilibrium and irreversible thermodynamics;
- Classical statistical mechanics;
- Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics;
- Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
- E-Print:
- 6 pages, 1 figure