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We propose a quantum heat engine based on an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer in a two-terminal geometry, and investigate its thermoelectric performances in the linear response regime. Sizeable thermopower (up to $\sim 0.3\,\text{mV}$/K) as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-03 Géraldine Haack , Francesco Giazotto

The study of heat-to-work conversion has gained significant attention in recent years, highlighting the potential of nanoscale systems to achieve energy conversion in steady-state devices without any macroscopic moving parts. This review…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Salil Bedkihal , Jayasmita Behera , Malay Bandyopadhyay

We propose and theoretically investigate the behavior of a ballistic Aharonov-Bohm (AB) ring when embedded in a N-S two-terminal setup, consisting of a normal metal (N) and superconducting (S) leads. This device is based on available…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-10 Gianmichele Blasi , Francesco Giazotto , Géraldine Haack

Quantum heat engines are nanoscale devices that convert heat into work by exploiting quantum effects, such as coherence and interference. Previous studies of these devices did not consider spin-dependent effects, which can influence the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Diego García , Sergio Arias , Rosa López

We investigate the role of quantum coherence and higher harmonics resulting from multiple-path interference in nonlinear thermoelectricity in a two-terminal triangular triple-dot Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometer. We quantify the trade-off…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Jayasmita Behera , Salil Bedkihal , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Malay Bandyopadhyay

The probe technique is a simple mean to incorporate elastic and inelastic processes into quantum dynamics. Using numerical simulations, we demonstrate that this tool can be employed beyond the analytically tractable linear response regime,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Salil Bedkihal , Malay Bandyopadhyay , Dvira Segal

We propose a self-validating scheme to calculate the unbiased responses of quantum many-body systems to external fields of arbibraty strength at any temperature. By switching on a specified field to a thermal pure quantum state of an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-30 Hiroyuki Endo , Chisa Hotta , Akira Shimizu

A quantum engine fueled by quantum measurement is proposed. Under the finite-time adiabatic driving regime, the conversion of heat to work is realized without the compression and expansion of the resonance frequency. The work output,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-23 Shanhe Su , Zhiyuan Lin , Jincan Chen

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

Modern quantum experiments provide examples of transport with non-commuting quantities, offering a tool to understand the interplay between thermal and quantum effects. Here we set forth a theory for non-Abelian transport in the linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-10 Gonzalo Manzano , Juan M. R. Parrondo , Gabriel T. Landi

We investigate the thermoelectric performance of minimally nonlinear irreversible heat engines with broken time-reversal symmetry (TRS), realized through voltage and voltage-temperature probe configurations. Our framework extends the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Jayasmita Behera , Salil Bedkihal , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Malay Bandyopadhyay

We report the experimental observation of tunable, non-reciprocal quantum transport of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a momentum lattice. By implementing a dissipative Aharonov-Bohm (AB) ring in momentum space and sending atoms through it,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-02-26 Wei Gou , Tao Chen , Dizhou Xie , Teng Xiao , Tian-Shu Deng , Bryce Gadway , Wei Yi , Bo Yan

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

We show that techniques of spatial adiabatic passage can be used to realise an electron interferometer in a geometry analogous to a conventional Aharonov-Bohm ring, with transport of the particle through the device modulated using coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Lenneke M Jong , Andrew D. Greentree

What are the resources that can be leveraged for a thermodynamic device to exhibit genuine quantum advantage? Typically, the answer to this question is sought in quantum correlations. In the present work, we show that quantum Otto engines…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-20 Sebastian Deffner

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

The three-terminal heat device consisting of a cavity and coupled to a heat bath is established. By tuning the temperatures of the electrodes and the phonon bath, the device can function as a heat engine or a refrigerator. We study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 Rongqian Wang , Jincheng Lu , Chen Wang , Jian-Hua Jiang

Nearly all thermal radiation phenomena involving materials with linear response can be accurately described via semi-classical theories of light. Here, we go beyond these traditional paradigms to study a nonlinear system which, as we show,…

The nonlinear electronic transport properties of a ballistic Aharonov-Bohm ring are investigated. It is demonstrated how the electronic interaction breaks the phase rigidity in a two-probe mesoscopic device as the voltage bias is increased.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Alexis R. Hernández , Caio H. Lewenkopf

In this paper, we investigate the thermodynamic properties of an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) quantum ring in a heat bath for both relativistic and non-relativistic cases. For accomplishing this, we used the partition function which was obtained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-21 R. R. S Oliveira , A. A. Araujo Filho , F. C. E. Lima , R. V. Maluf , C. A. S. Almeida
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