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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015) Année : 2016

Time-dependent thermoelectric transport for nanoscale thermal machines

P. Lombardo

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We analyze an electronic nanoscale thermal machine driven by time-dependent environment: besides bias and gate voltage variations, we consider also the less prevailing time modulation of the couplings between leads and dot. We provide energy and heat current expressions in such situations, as well as expressions for the power exchanged between the dot+leads system and its outside. Calculations are made in the Keldysh nonequilibrium Green's function framework. We apply these results to design a cyclic refrigerator, circumventing the ambiguity of defining energy flows between subsystems in the case of strong coupling. For fast lead-dot coupling modulation, we observe transient currents which cannot be ascribed to charge tunneling.
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A. -M. Dare, P. Lombardo. Time-dependent thermoelectric transport for nanoscale thermal machines. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015), 2016, 93 (3), ⟨10.1103/PhysRevB.93.035303⟩. ⟨hal-01435141⟩
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