Thermoelectric transport in billiard systems
Abstract
We discuss the thermoelectric (TE) transport in billiard systems of interacting particles, coupled to stochastic particle reservoirs. Recently in [1], analytical exact expressions for the TE transport of noninteracting gases of polyatomic molecules were obtained, and a novel microscopic mechanism for the increase of thermoelectric efficiency described. After briefly reviewing the derivation of [1], in this paper we focus on the effects that the particle-particle interaction has on the TE efficiency. We show that interaction reduces the maximal thermodynamic efficiency. However, the mechanism for the efficiency's increase towards its Carnot upper limit, described in [1], remains unaffected.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0809.4643,
title = {Thermoelectric transport in billiard systems},
author = {Giulio Casati and Carlos Mejia-Monasterio},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.4643},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
Proceedings of the 7th International Summer School "Let's Face Chaos Through Nonlinear Dynamics". 11 pages, 4 figures