Thermoelectric efficiency in momentum-conserving systems
Statistical Mechanics
2014-01-14 v1
Abstract
We show that for a two-dimensional gas of elastically interacting particles the thermoelectric efficiency reaches the Carnot efficiency in the thermodynamic limit. Numerical simulations, by means of the multi-particle collision dynamics method, show that this result is robust under perturbations. That is, the thermoelectric figure of merit remains large when momentum conservation is broken by weak noise.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1311.5987,
title = {Thermoelectric efficiency in momentum-conserving systems},
author = {Giuliano Benenti and Giulio Casati and Carlos Mejia-Monasterio},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.5987},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
16 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to New Journal of Physics