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We theoretically study how one can control and enhance nonlinear thermoelectricity by regulating quantum coherence in nanostructures such as a quantum dot system or a single-molecule junction. In nanostructures, the typical temperature…

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I discuss thermoelectric properties of a quantum dot coupled to one normal and one superconducting lead in the presence of Kondo effect and Andreev scattering. I will focus on conductance, thermal conductance, thermopower and related…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-07 Mariusz Krawiec

Conventional continuous quantum heat engines with incoherent heat transfer perform poorly as they exploit two-body interactions between the system and hot or cold baths, thus having limited capability to outperform their classical…

We study thermoelectric transport through double quantum dots system with spin-dependent interdot coupling and ferromagnetic electrodes by means of the non-equilibrium Green function in the linear response regime. It is found that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Qiang Wang , Haiqing Xie , Hujun Jiao , Zhi-Jian Li , Yi-Hang Nie

We develop a mathematically rigorous theory for the quantum transfer processes in degenerate donor-acceptor dimers in contact with a thermal environment. We calculate explicitly the transfer rates and the acceptor population efficiency. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Marco Merkli , Gennady P. Berman , Avadh Saxena

We investigate nonlinear thermal transport properties of a single interacting quantum dot with two energy levels tunnel-coupled to two electrodes using nonequilibrium Green function method and Hartree-Fock decoupling approximation. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chen Xue-Ou , Bing Dong , X. L. Lei

We investigate theoretically the thermoelectric transport through a circuit implementation of the three-channel "charge" Kondo model quantum simulator [Z. Iftikhar et al., Science 360, 1315 (2018)]. The universal temperature scaling law of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-09 T. K. T. Nguyen , M. N. Kiselev

The study shows that presence of the quantum coherent, unitary component of the evolution of the system can improve constancy of heat engines, i.e., decrease fluctuations of the output power, in comparison with purely stochastic setups.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-28 Krzysztof Ptaszynski

We study transport properties of weakly interacting one-dimensional electron systems including on an equal footing thermal equilibration due to three-particle collisions and the effects of large-scale inhomogeneities. We show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Alex Levchenko , Tobias Micklitz , Jerome Rech , K. A. Matveev

A unified view on macroscopic thermodynamics and quantum transport is presented. Thermodynamic processes with an exchange of energy between two systems necessarily involve the flow of other balanceable quantities. These flows are first…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-02 C. Strunk

We investigate coherent electron-switching transport in a double quantum waveguide system in a perpendicular static or vanishing magnetic field. The finite symmetric double waveguide is connected to two semi-infinite leads from both ends.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Nzar Rauf Abdullah , Chi-Shung Tang , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

We study the thermoelectric properties and heat-to-work conversion performance of an interacting, multi-level quantum dot (QD) weakly coupled to electronic reservoirs. We focus on the sequential tunneling regime. The dynamics of the charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-29 Paolo Andrea Erdman , Francesco Mazza , Riccardo Bosisio , Giuliano Benenti , Rosario Fazio , Fabio Taddei

We theoretically investigate strategies for harnessing quantum interference to optimize the figure of merit $ZT$, power output, and thermodynamic efficiency in multi-quantum-dot Aharonov-Bohm (AB) thermoelectric heat engines. Using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Sridhar , Salil Bedkihal , Malay Bandyopadhyay

We investigate the transport through a nanoscale device consisting of a degenerate double-orbital Anderson dot coupled to two uncorrelated leads. We determine the thermoelectric transport properties close to the one-electron regime and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-06 J. Azema , A. -M. Daré , S. Schäfer , P. Lombardo

We investigate the nonequilibrium transport properties of a double quantum dot system connected in parallel to two leads, including intradot electron-electron interaction. In the absence of interactions the system supports a bound state in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-04 Miguel A. Sierra , M. Saiz-Bretin , F. Dominguez-Adame , David Sanchez

We investigate the thermoelectric transport properties of an interacting parallel double quantum dot in the Coulomb-blockade regime. Building on an analytical solution based on an equation-of-motion technique, we extend the formalism for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Nahual Sobrino

Quantum transport properties through some multilevel quantum dots sandwiched between two metallic contacts are investigated by the use of Green's function technique. Here we do parametric calculations, based on the tight-binding model, to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Santanu K. Maiti

We investigate the conductance and thermopower of massless Dirac fermions through a quantum dot using a pseudogap Anderson model in the non-crossing approximation. When the Fermi level is at the Dirac point, the conductance has a cusp where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-17 Tomosuke Aono

We investigate the power dissipated by an electronic current flowing through a quantum point contact in a two-dimensional electron gas. Based on the Landauer-B\"uttiker approach to quantum transport, we evaluate the power that is dissipated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-30 Carmen Blaas-Anselmi , Félix Helluin , Rodolfo A. Jalabert , Guillaume Weick , Dietmar Weinmann

We study the effect of thermal equilibration on the transport properties of a weakly interacting one-dimensional electron system. Although equilibration is severely suppressed due to phase-space restrictions and conservation laws, it can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-04 Tobias Micklitz , Jérôme Rech , K. A. Matveev