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Thermoelectric effects allow the generation of electrical power from waste heat and the electrical control of cooling and heating. Remarkably, these effects are also highly sensitive to the asymmetry in the density of states around the…

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Decoherence often happens in the quantum world. We try to utilize quantum dephasing to build an optimal thermometry. By calculating the Cram$\acute{e}$r-Rao bound, we prove that the Ramsey measurement is the optimal way to measure the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 Dong Xie , Chunling Xu , Anmin Wang

I. Introduction II. Theoretical background (Landauer-Buttiker formalism of thermo-electricity, Quantum point contacts as ideal electron waveguides, Saddle-shaped potential) III. Experiments (Thermopower, Thermal conductance, Peltier effect)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. van Houten , L. W. Molenkamp , C. W. J. Beenakker , C. T. Foxon

We calculate the quantum corrections of the thermodynamic quantities of a system of confined Bosons at finite temperature. Systematically quantum corrections are written in a series of $\hbar$, which is convergent when $kT$ is much larger…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Subhasis Sinha

We study nonequilibrium thermoelectric transport properties of a correlated impurity connected to two leads for temperatures below the Kondo scale. At finite bias, for which a current flows across the leads, we investigate the differential…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-21 Antonius Dorda , Martin Ganahl , Sabine Andergassen , Wolfgang von der Linden , Enrico Arrigoni

Equilibrium probes have been widely used in various noisy quantum metrology schemes. However, such an equilibrium-probe-based metrology scenario severely suffers from the low-temperature-error divergence problem in the weak-coupling regime.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Ze-Zhou Zhang , Hong-Gang Luo , Wei Wu

We investigate variational problems in quantum thermodynamics at positive temperature, in which admissible states are constrained by prescribed outcomes of a finite set of measurements. We solve a problem raised by the recent work [Liu,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Emanuele Caputo , Augusto Gerolin , Nataliia Monina , Pavlo Pelikh , Lorenzo Portinale

We investigate nonequilibrium effects in the transport of interacting electrons in quantum conductors, proposing the nonlocal thermoelectric response as a direct indicator of the presence of interactions, nonthermal states and the effect of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-10 Alessandro Braggio , Matteo Carrega , Björn Sothmann , Rafael Sánchez

Despite its intrinsic non-equilibrium origin, thermoelectricity in nanoscale systems is usually described within a static scattering approach which disregards the dynamical interaction with the thermal baths that maintain energy flow. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Y. Dubi , M. Di Ventra

In this paper we study the thermodynamics of black branes at quantum scales. We analyze both perturbative and non-perturbative corrections to the thermodynamics of such black branes. It will be observed that these corrections will modify…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-13 Behnam Pourhassan , Mir Faizal

Quantum thermodynamics aims at extending standard thermodynamics and non-equilibrium statistical physics to systems with sizes well below the thermodynamic limit. A rapidly evolving research field, which promises to change our understanding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Fabrizio Cleri

We present a method for the measurement of a temperature differential across a single quantum dot that has transmission resonances that are separated in energy by much more than the thermal energy. We determine numerically that the method…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-10 E. A. Hoffmann , N. Nakpathomkun , A. I. Persson , H. A. Nilsson , L. Samuelson , H. Linke

Critical phenomena at finite temperature underpin a broad range of physical systems, yet their study remains challenging due to computational bottlenecks near phase transitions. Quantum annealers have attracted significant interest as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-11 Gianluca Teza , Francesco Campaioli , Marco Avesani , Oren Raz

We present a theoretical study of radiative heat transport in nonlinear solid-state quantum circuits. We give a detailed account of heat rectification effects, i.e. the asymmetry of heat current with respect to a reversal of the thermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-28 Tomi Ruokola , Teemu Ojanen , Antti-Pekka Jauho

The extent to which a temperature can be appropriately assigned to a small quantum system, as an internal property but not as a property of any large environment, is still an open problem. In this paper, a method is proposed for solving…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-13 Jiaozi Wang , Wen-ge Wang

The precision of typical thermometers consisting of $N$ particles is shot noise limited, improving as $\sim1/\sqrt{N}$. For high precision thermometry and thermometric standards this presents an important theoretical noise floor. Here it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Thomas M. Stace

We studied the thermal conduction through a quantum point contact (QPC), defined in GaAs-AlGaAs heterostructure, in the presence of a transverse magnetic field. A shift in the position of thermo-voltage peak is observed with increasing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Chengyu Yan , Michael Pepper , Patrick See , Ian Farrer , David Ritchie , Jonathan Griffiths

Single-qubit thermometry presents the simplest tool to measure the temperature of thermal baths with reduced invasivity. At thermal equilibrium, the temperature uncertainty is linked to the heat capacity of the qubit, however the best…

We review recent developments in nonlinear quantum transport through nanostructures and mesoscopic systems driven by thermal gradients or in combination with voltage biases. Low-dimensional conductors are excellent platforms to analyze both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-14 David Sanchez , Rosa Lopez

In this paper, we study the quantum corrections to the thermodynamical quantities (temperature and entropy) for a Bardeen charged regular black hole by using a quantum tunneling approach over semiclassical approximations. Taking into…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Sharif , Wajiha Javed