[en] 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.
Disciplines :
Physics
Author, co-author :
Esposito, Massimiliano ; Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB > Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems
Kawai, Ryoichi; University of Alabama at Birmingham > Department of Physics
Lindenberg, Katja; University of California, San Diego > Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and BioCircuits Institute
Van den Broeck, Christian; Universiteit Hasselt - UH
