The widely debated feasibility of thermodynamic machines achieving Carnot efficiency at finite power has been convincingly dismissed. Yet, the common wisdom that efficiency can only be optimal in the limit of infinitely slow processes overlooks the dual scenario of infinitely fast processes. We corroborate that efficient engines at divergent power output are not theoretically impossible, framing our claims within the theory of Stochastic Thermodynamics. We inspect the case of an electronic quantum dot coupled to three particle reservoirs to illustrate the physical rationale
The difference between quantum isoenergetic process and quantum isothermal process comes from the vi...
In (1) a thermodynamical-statistical mechanical approach is presented for a two energy level quantum...
The minimal set of thermodynamic control parameters consists of a statistical (thermal) and a mechan...
The widely debated feasibility of thermodynamic machines achieving Carnot efficiency at finite power...
We evaluate the efficiency at maximum power of a quantum-dot Carnot heat engine. The universal value...
The Carnot cycle imposes a fundamental upper limit to the efficiency of a macroscopic motor operatin...
Since its inception about two centuries ago thermodynamics has sparkled continuous interest and fund...
5 pagesInternational audienceMachines are only Carnot efficient if they are reversible, but then the...
Sadi Carnot's theorem regarding the maximum efficiency of heat engines is considered to be of fundam...
The Carnot efficiency of usual thermal motors compares the work produced by the motor to the heat re...
In 1824, Carnot proposed a cycle operating on reversibility principles. He proved that there exists ...
peer reviewedWe derive the statistics of the efficiency under the assumption that thermodynamic flux...
A theoretical thermodynamic cycle more efficient than an infinite set of Carnot engines is presented...
The efficiency of an heat engine is traditionally defined as the ratio of its average output work ov...
Classically, the power generated by an ideal thermal machine cannot be larger than the Carnot limit....
The difference between quantum isoenergetic process and quantum isothermal process comes from the vi...
In (1) a thermodynamical-statistical mechanical approach is presented for a two energy level quantum...
The minimal set of thermodynamic control parameters consists of a statistical (thermal) and a mechan...
The widely debated feasibility of thermodynamic machines achieving Carnot efficiency at finite power...
We evaluate the efficiency at maximum power of a quantum-dot Carnot heat engine. The universal value...
The Carnot cycle imposes a fundamental upper limit to the efficiency of a macroscopic motor operatin...
Since its inception about two centuries ago thermodynamics has sparkled continuous interest and fund...
5 pagesInternational audienceMachines are only Carnot efficient if they are reversible, but then the...
Sadi Carnot's theorem regarding the maximum efficiency of heat engines is considered to be of fundam...
The Carnot efficiency of usual thermal motors compares the work produced by the motor to the heat re...
In 1824, Carnot proposed a cycle operating on reversibility principles. He proved that there exists ...
peer reviewedWe derive the statistics of the efficiency under the assumption that thermodynamic flux...
A theoretical thermodynamic cycle more efficient than an infinite set of Carnot engines is presented...
The efficiency of an heat engine is traditionally defined as the ratio of its average output work ov...
Classically, the power generated by an ideal thermal machine cannot be larger than the Carnot limit....
The difference between quantum isoenergetic process and quantum isothermal process comes from the vi...
In (1) a thermodynamical-statistical mechanical approach is presented for a two energy level quantum...
The minimal set of thermodynamic control parameters consists of a statistical (thermal) and a mechan...