Thermoelectric transport and Peltier cooling of cold atomic gases
arXiv:1607.03641 · doi:10.1016/j.crhy.2016.08.013
Abstract
This brief review presents the emerging field of mesoscopic physics with cold atoms, with an emphasis on thermal and 'thermoelectric' transport, i.e. coupled transport of particle and entropy. We review in particular the comparison between theoretically predited and experimentally observed thermoelectric effects in such systems. We also show how combining well designed transport properties and evaporative cooling leads to an equivalent of the Peltier effect with cold atoms, which can be used as a new cooling procedure with improved cooling power and efficiency compared to the evaporative cooling currently used in atomic gases. This could lead to a new generation of experiments probing strong correlation effects of ultracold fermionic atoms at low temperatures.
arXiv comment33 pages, 9 figures, Review. To be published in the special issue "Mesoscopic Thermoelectric Phenomena" of C. R. Physique 17 (2016)
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