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Particle-exchange machines utilize electronic transport to continuously transfer heat between fermionic reservoirs. Here, we couple a quantum mechanical resonator to a particle-exchange machine hosted in a quantum dot and let the system run…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 Sofia Sevitz , Federico Cerisola , Karen V. Hovhannisyan , Janet Anders

Abstract Reservoir engineering is an important tool for quantum information science and quantum thermodynamics since it allows for preparing and/or protecting special quantum states of single or multipartite systems or to investigate…

We study ensembles of fermionic cold-atom quantum wires with tunable transverse mode population and single-wire resolution. From in situ density profiles, we determine the temperature of the atomic wires in the weakly interacting limit and…

Potential applications of quantum dots in the nanotechnology industry make these systems an important field of study in various areas of physics. In particular, thermodynamics has a significant role in technological innovations. With this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Luís Fernando C. Pereira , Edilberto O. Silva

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 Nobuhiko Taniguchi

Quantum dots (QDs) are good model systems for fundamental studies of mesoscopic transport phenomena using thermoelectric effects because of their small size, electrostatically tunable properties and thermoelectric response characteristics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-16 Artis Svilans , Martin Leijnse , Heiner Linke

I present a theoretical model of a quantum statistical ensemble for which, unlike in conventional physics, the total number of particles is extremely small. The thermodynamical quantities are calculated by taking a small $N$ by virtue of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-15 Enrico Prati

The operation of quantum dots at highest possible temperatures is desirable for many applications. Capacitance-voltage spectroscopy (C(V)-spectroscopy) measurements are an established instrument to analyze the electronic structure and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-19 Fabian Brinks , Andreas D. Wieck , Arne Ludwig

Measuring the temperature of a two-dimensional electron gas at temperatures of a few mK is a challenging issue, which standard thermometry schemes may fail to tackle. We propose and analyze a nongalvanic thermometer, based on a quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-20 S. Gasparinetti , M. J. Martínez-Pérez , S. de Franceschi , J. P. Pekola , F. Giazotto

Based on numerical renormalization group calculations, we demonstrate that experimentally realized double quantum dots constitute a minimal thermoelectric generator. In the Kondo regime, one quantum dot acts as an n-type and the other one…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-03-10 S. Donsa , S. Andergassen , K. Held

A classical thermometer typically works by exchanging energy with the system being measured until it comes to equilibrium, at which point the readout is related to the final energy state of the thermometer. A recent paper noted that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 W. K. Tham , H. Ferretti , A. V. Sadashivan , A. M. Steinberg

We investigate the thermoelectric properties of a quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic and superconducting electrodes. The combination of spin polarized tunneling at the ferromagnetic-quantum dot interface and the application of an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 Sun-Yong Hwang , Rosa Lopez , David Sanchez

A quantum thermal transistor is designed by the strong coupling between one qubit and one qutrit which are in contact with three heat baths with different temperatures. The thermal behavior is analyzed based on the master equation by both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-12 Bao-qing Guo , Tong Liu , Chang-shui Yu

The physics of interacting nuclear spins arranged in a crystalline lattice is typically described using a thermodynamic framework: a variety of experimental studies in bulk solid-state systems have proven the concept of a spin temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-21 P. Maletinsky , M. Kroner , A. Imamoglu

State readout is a key requirement for a quantum computer. For semiconductor-based qubit devices it is usually accomplished using a separate mesoscopic electrometer. Here we demonstrate a simple detection scheme in which a radio-frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 K. D. Petersson , C. G. Smith , D. Anderson , P. Atkinson , G. A. C. Jones , D. A. Ritchie

We demonstrate systematic resonance fluorescence recovery with near-unity emission efficiency in single quantum dots embedded in a charge-tunable device in a wave-guiding geometry. The quantum dot charge state is controlled by a gate…

One-electron tunneling through a quantum dot with a strong magnetic field in the direction of the current is studied. The linear magneto-conductance is computed for a model parabolic dot with seven electrons in the intermediate states and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Augusto Gonzalez , Roberto Capote

We show that certain coherences, termed as heat-exchange coherences, which contribute to the thermalization process of a quantum probe in a repeated interactions scheme, can modify the spectral response of the probe system. We suggest to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-20 Ricardo Román-Ancheyta , Barış Çakmak , Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

Many-particle electron states in semiconductor quantum dots with carrier-mediated ferromagnetism are studied theoretically within the self-consistent Boltzmann equation formalism. Depending on the conditions, a quantum dot may contain there…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander O. Govorov

The interaction of photons and coherent quantum systems can be employed to detect electromagnetic radiation with remarkable sensitivity. We introduce a quantum radiometer based on the photon-induced-dephasing process of a superconducting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Zhixin Wang , Mingrui Xu , Xu Han , Wei Fu , Shruti Puri , S. M. Girvin , Hong X. Tang , S. Shankar , M. H. Devoret