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
This work obtains the efficiency at maximum power for a stochastic heat engine performing Carnot-lik...
Stochastic thermodynamics has revolutionized our understanding of heat engines operating in finite t...
Classically, the power generated by an ideal thermal machine cannot be larger than the Carnot limit....
peer reviewedThe widely debated feasibility of thermodynamic machines achieving Carnot efficiency a...
peer reviewedWe derive the statistics of the efficiency under the assumption that thermodynamic flux...
Sadi Carnot's theorem regarding the maximum efficiency of heat engines is considered to be of fundam...
Since its inception about two centuries ago thermodynamics has sparkled continuous interest and fund...
The Carnot efficiency of usual thermal motors compares the work produced by the motor to the heat re...
peer reviewedWe evaluate the efficiency at maximum power of a quantum-dot Carnot heat engine. The un...
The Carnot efficiency of usual thermal motors compares the work produced by the motor to the heat re...
5 pagesInternational audienceMachines are only Carnot efficient if they are reversible, but then the...
In 1824, Carnot proposed a cycle operating on reversibility principles. He proved that there exists ...
The Carnot cycle imposes a fundamental upper limit to the efficiency of a macroscopic motor operatin...
peer reviewedWe describe a single-level quantum dot in contact with two leads as a nanoscale finite-...
Dynamical nonlinear systems provide a new approach to the old problem of increasing the efficiency o...
This work obtains the efficiency at maximum power for a stochastic heat engine performing Carnot-lik...
Stochastic thermodynamics has revolutionized our understanding of heat engines operating in finite t...
Classically, the power generated by an ideal thermal machine cannot be larger than the Carnot limit....
peer reviewedThe widely debated feasibility of thermodynamic machines achieving Carnot efficiency a...
peer reviewedWe derive the statistics of the efficiency under the assumption that thermodynamic flux...
Sadi Carnot's theorem regarding the maximum efficiency of heat engines is considered to be of fundam...
Since its inception about two centuries ago thermodynamics has sparkled continuous interest and fund...
The Carnot efficiency of usual thermal motors compares the work produced by the motor to the heat re...
peer reviewedWe evaluate the efficiency at maximum power of a quantum-dot Carnot heat engine. The un...
The Carnot efficiency of usual thermal motors compares the work produced by the motor to the heat re...
5 pagesInternational audienceMachines are only Carnot efficient if they are reversible, but then the...
In 1824, Carnot proposed a cycle operating on reversibility principles. He proved that there exists ...
The Carnot cycle imposes a fundamental upper limit to the efficiency of a macroscopic motor operatin...
peer reviewedWe describe a single-level quantum dot in contact with two leads as a nanoscale finite-...
Dynamical nonlinear systems provide a new approach to the old problem of increasing the efficiency o...
This work obtains the efficiency at maximum power for a stochastic heat engine performing Carnot-lik...
Stochastic thermodynamics has revolutionized our understanding of heat engines operating in finite t...
Classically, the power generated by an ideal thermal machine cannot be larger than the Carnot limit....