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American Physical Society, Physical review E: Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 4(81), 2010

DOI: 10.1103/physreve.81.041106

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Quantum-dot Carnot engine at maximum power

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Abstract

We evaluate the efficiency at maximum power of a quantum-dot Carnot heat engine. The universal values of the coefficients at the linear and quadratic order in the temperature gradient are reproduced. Curzon-Ahlborn efficiency is recovered in the limit of weak dissipation.