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We consider an interacting quantum dot connected to two reservoirs driven at distinct voltage/temperature and we study the correlations between charge and heat currents first as a function of the applied voltage bias, and second as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-05 Adeline Crépieux , Paul Eyméoud , Fabienne Michelini

We present a set of experiments to optimize the performance of the noninvasive thermometer based on proximity superconductivity. Current through a standard tunnel junction between an aluminum superconductor and a copper electrode is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 Bayan Karimi , Danilo Nikolic , Tuomas Tuukkanen , Joonas T. Peltonen , Wolfgang Belzig , Jukka P. Pekola

A three-level system attached to three thermal baths is manipulated to be a microscopic thermal device integrating a valve, a refrigerator, an amplifier, and a thermometer in the quantum regime, via tuning the inner coupling strength of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Yong Huangfu , Shifan Qi , Jun Jing

Potential realization of a quantum thermometer operating in the nanokelvin regime, formed by a few-fermionic mixture confined in a one-dimensional harmonic trap, is proposed. Thermal states of the system are studied theoretically from the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-06-22 Marcin Płodzień , Rafał Demkowicz-Dobrzański , Tomasz Sowiński

We investigate Coulomb blockade thermometers (CBT) in an intermediate temperature regime, where measurements with enhanced accuracy are possible due to the increased magnitude of the differential conductance dip. Previous theoretical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-29 A. V. Feshchenko , M. Meschke , D. Gunnarsson , M. Prunnila , L. Roschier , J. S. Penttilä , J. P. Pekola

We present an analytical study of a strongly correlated quantum dot-based thermoelectric particle-exchange heat engine for both finite and infinite on-dot Coulomb interaction. Employing Keldysh's non-equilibrium Green's function formalism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 Sachin Verma , Ajay

Accurate on-chip temperature sensing is critical for the optimal performance of modern CMOS integrated circuits (ICs), to understand and monitor localized heating around the chip during operation. The development of quantum computers has…

Coulomb blockade thermometers (CBTs) are versatile and, in principle, primary thermometers operating down to the micro-Kelvin range but bias heating spoils the thermometry and the primary mode. Here, we introduce a method to extract the CBT…

Quantum thermometry aims to measure temperature in nanoscale quantum systems, paralleling classical thermometry. However, temperature is not a quantum observable, and most theoretical studies have therefore concentrated on analyzing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Yan Xie , Junjie Liu

In the present work, we investigate the thermoelectric properties of a T-shaped double quantum dot system coupled to two metallic leads incorporating the intra-dot Coulomb interaction. We explore the role of the interference effects and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-03 G. Gómez-Silva , P. A. Orellana , E. V. Anda

Navigating the intricacies of thermal management at the quantum scale is a challenge in the pursuit of advanced nanoscale technologies. To this extent, theoretical frameworks introducing minimal models mirroring the functionality of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-01 André H. A. Malavazi , Borhan Ahmadi , Paweł Mazurek , Antonio Mandarino

Quantum dots are useful model systems for studying quantum thermoelectric behavior because of their highly energy-dependent electron transport properties, which are tunable by electrostatic gating. As a result of this strong energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-17 Artis Svilans , Adam M. Burke , Sofia Fahlvik Svensson , Martin Leijnse , Heiner Linke

In realistic nanoscale transport set-ups, electron-phonon coupling leads to the exchange of heat between phonon baths and electronic reservoirs with finite heat capacities. Such exchange affects the finite reservoir's temperature. However,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-01 Sindre Brattegard , Stephanie Matern , Mark T. Mitchison , Saulo V. Moreira

We report low-temperature transport measurements through a double quantum dot device in a configuration where one of the quantum dots is coupled directly to the source and drain electrodes, and a second (side-coupled) quantum dot interacts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 D. Y. Baines , T. Meunier , D. Mailly , A. D. Wieck , C. Bäuerle , L. Saminadayar , Pablo S. Cornaglia , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro , D. Feinberg

Accurate temperature estimation in the quantum and cryogenic regimes remains a fundamental challenge. Here, we investigate nonequilibrium quantum thermometry using a single-qubit probe coupled to a bosonic bath through noncommuting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Youssef Aiache , Abderrahim El Allati , İlkay Demir , Khadija El Anouz

We analyze heat and charge transport through a single-level quantum dot coupled to two BCS superconductors at different temperatures to first order in the tunnel coupling. In order to describe the system theoretically, we extend a real-time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-28 Mathias Kamp , Björn Sothmann

Quantum thermal devices which can manage heat as their electronic analogues for the electronic currents have attracted increasing attention. Here a three-terminal quantum thermal device is designed by three coupling qubits interacting with…

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

We propose a nanoscale device consisting of a double quantum dot with strong intra- and inter- dot Coulomb repulsions. In this design, the current can only flow through the lower dot, but is triggered by the gate-controlled occupancy of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-08 Pierre Lombardo , Roland Hayn , Denis Zhuravel , Steffen Schäfer

Understanding the thermodynamic role of measurement in quantum mechanical systems is a burgeoning field of study. In this article, we study a double quantum dot (DQD) connected to two macroscopic fermionic thermal reservoirs. We assume that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Laetitia P. Bettmann , Michael J. Kewming , John Goold

We demonstrate gate control of electronic heat flow in a thermally-biased single-quantum-dot junction. Electron temperature maps taken in the immediate vicinity of the junction, as a function of the gate and bias voltages applied to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-22 B. Dutta , D. Majidi , N. W. Talarico , N. Lo Gullo , C. B. Winkelmann , H. Courtois