Quantum heat engine based on photon-assisted Cooper pair tunneling
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A voltage biased Josephson junction coupled to two microwave cavities which are in turn coupled to two ``hot'' and ``cold'' thermal environments, constitutes the proposal for the first thermoelectric heat engine where the heat current is completely separated from the electronic degrees of freedom.
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As long as the efficiency is below the Carnot efficiency, the machine is a heat engine; at the Carnot efficiency it is reversible; above the Carnot efficiency it acts as a refrigerator.
“As long as h h < C , our machine is thus a heat engine, h h = C denotes the point of reversibility, where all the energy currents vanish, and for h h > C , the machine acts as a refrigerator, using power to induce a heat current from the cold bath to the hot bath [44].”
From Markovian master equations for quantum thermal machines: Local versus global approach (2017) · cites this paper as [44]
For a bosonic bath with Ohmic spectrum, the local-validity inequalities are fulfilled as long as the inter-system coupling is much smaller than the oscillator frequency.
“For a bosonic bath with Ohmic spectrum, the last equations are fulfilled as long as W a g , which is usually the case for systems where the local approach is employed [38,44,46,51].”
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- Authors
- Hofer, P. P., Souquet, J.-R., & Clerk, A. A.
- Affiliations
- McGill University (CA)
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- American Physical Society (APS)
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- 2016-01-22
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- Keywords
- quantum heat engines, photon-assisted tunneling, Cooper pair tunneling, Josephson junctions, microwave cavity, heat current, thermal environment, bias voltage
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