Coherent control of thermoelectric currents and noise in quantum thermocouples
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2024-01-26 v2 Quantum Physics
Abstract
Three-terminal coherent conductors are able to perform as quantum thermocouples when the heat absorbed from one terminal is transformed into useful power in the other two. Allowing for a phase coherent coupling to the heat source, we introduce a way to control and improve the thermoelectric response via quantum interference. A simple setup composed of a scanning probe between two resonant tunneling regions is proposed that achieves better performance than incoherent analogs by enhancing the generated power and efficiency, and reducing the output current noise.
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@article{arxiv.2307.13319,
title = {Coherent control of thermoelectric currents and noise in quantum thermocouples},
author = {José Balduque and Rafael Sánchez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.13319},
year = {2024}
}
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11 pages, 10 figures