Esposito Massimiliano, Kawai Ryoichi, Lindenberg Katja, Van den Broeck Christian
Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP 231, Campus Plaine, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2010 Apr;81(4 Pt 1):041106. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.041106. Epub 2010 Apr 12.
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.