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Voltage-amplified heat rectification in SIS junctions
Ilia Khomchenko, Henni Ouerdane, Giuliano Benenti
The control of thermal fluxes -- magnitude and direction, in mesoscale and nanoscale electronic circuits can be achieved by means of heat rectification using thermal diodes in two-…
Engineering dynamical couplings for quantum thermodynamic tasks
Matteo Carrega, Loris Maria Cangemi, Giulio De Filippis +3
Describing the thermodynamic properties of quantum systems far from equilibrium is challenging, in particular when the system is strongly coupled to its environment, or when memory…
Optimal energy conversion through anti-adiabatic driving breaking time-reversal symmetry
Loris Maria Cangemi, Matteo Carrega, Antonio De Candia +4
Starting with Carnot engine, the ideal efficiency of a heat engine has been associated with quasi-static transformations and vanishingly small output power. Here, we exactly calcul…
Theoretical approaches for nanoscale thermoelectric phenomena
Carmine Antonio Perroni, Giuliano Benenti
Focus of the chapter is on the theoretical approaches aimed to analyze thermoelectric properties at the nanoscale. We discuss several relevant theoretical approaches for different…
Dynamical Casimir effect and state transfer in the ultrastrong coupling regime
Giuliano Benenti, Michele Stramacchia, Giuliano Strini
The dynamical Casimir effect (DCE) manifests itself in the ultrastrong matter-field coupling (USC) regime, as a consequence of the nonadiabatic change of some parameters of a syste…
Thermoelectric properties of an interacting quantum dot-based heat engine
Paolo Andrea Erdman, Francesco Mazza, Riccardo Bosisio +3
We study the thermoelectric properties and heat-to-work conversion performance of an interacting, multi-level quantum dot (QD) weakly coupled to electronic reservoirs. We focus on…
Fundamental aspects of steady-state conversion of heat to work at the nanoscale
Giuliano Benenti, Giulio Casati, Keiji Saito +1
In recent years, the study of heat to work conversion has been re-invigorated by nanotechnology. Steady-state devices do this conversion without any macroscopic moving parts, throu…
A magnetic thermal switch for heat management at the nanoscale
Riccardo Bosisio, Stefano Valentini, Francesco Mazza +4
In a multi-terminal setup, when time-reversal symmetry is broken by a magnetic field, the heat flows can be managed by designing a device with programmable Boolean behavior. We sho…
Separation of heat and charge currents for boosted thermoelectric conversion
Francesco Mazza, Stefano Valentini, Riccardo Bosisio +4
In a multi-terminal device the (electronic) heat and charge currents can follow different paths. In this paper we introduce and analyse a class of multi-terminal devices where this…
Thermoelectric efficiency of three-terminal quantum thermal machines
Francesco Mazza, Riccardo Bosisio, Giuliano Benenti +3
The efficiency of a thermal engine working in linear response regime in a multi-terminals configuration is discussed. For the generic three-terminal case, we provide a general defi…
Efficiency of three-terminal thermoelectric transport under broken-time reversal symmetry
Vinitha Balachandran, Giuliano Benenti, Giulio Casati
We investigate thermoelectric efficiency of systems with broken time reversal symmetry under a three-terminal transport. Using a model of Aharonov-Bohm interferometer formed with t…
Railway switch transport model
Martin Horvat, Tomaz Prosen, Giuliano Benenti +1
We propose a simple model of coupled heat and particle transport based on a zero-dimensional classical deterministic dynamics which is reminiscent of a railway switch whose action…
Validity of the Wiedemann-Franz law in small molecular wires
Vinitha Balachandran, Riccardo Bosisio, Giuliano Benenti
We report our investigations on the finite-size effects of the Lorenz number in a molecular wire. Using Landauer-Büttiker formalism, we find that for sufficiently long wires there…
From the Fermi Liquid Towards the Wigner Solid in Two Dimensions
Jean-Louis Pichard, Giuliano Benenti, Georgios Katomeris +2
The quantum-classical crossover from the Fermi liquid towards the Wigner solid is numerically revisited, considering small square lattice models where electrons interact via a Coul…