Sothmann Björn, Sánchez Rafael, Jordan Andrew N
Département de Physique Théorique, Université de Genève, CH-1211 Genève 4, Switzerland.
Nanotechnology. 2015 Jan 21;26(3):032001. doi: 10.1088/0957-4484/26/3/032001. Epub 2014 Dec 30.
We review recent theoretical work on thermoelectric energy harvesting in multi-terminal quantum-dot setups. We first discuss several examples of nanoscale heat engines based on Coulomb-coupled conductors. In particular, we focus on quantum dots in the Coulomb-blockade regime, chaotic cavities and resonant tunneling through quantum dots and wells. We then turn toward quantum-dot heat engines that are driven by bosonic degrees of freedom such as phonons, magnons and microwave photons. These systems provide interesting connections to spin caloritronics and circuit quantum electrodynamics.
我们回顾了多端量子点装置中热电能量收集的近期理论工作。我们首先讨论了基于库仑耦合导体的纳米级热机的几个例子。特别地，我们关注处于库仑阻塞 regime 的量子点、混沌腔以及通过量子点和量子阱的共振隧穿。然后我们转向由声子、磁振子和微波光子等玻色自由度驱动的量子点热机。这些系统为自旋热电子学和电路量子电动力学提供了有趣的联系。
