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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen

TT 75: Poster Session: Transport 1

TT 75.3: Poster

Thursday, March 23, 2017, 15:00–19:00, P2-EG

Implementation of transmission functions for an optimized three-terminal quantum dot heat engine — •Christian H. Schiegg, Michael Dzierzawa, and Ulrich Eckern — Institute of Physics, University of Augsburg, 86159 Augsburg, Germany

We consider two modifications of a recently proposed three-terminal quantum dot heat engine. First, we investigate the necessity of the thermalization assumption, namely that electrons are always thermalized by inelastic processes when traveling across the cavity where the heat is supplied. Second, we analyze various arrangements of tunneling-coupled quantum dots in order to implement a transmission function that is superior to the Lorentzian transmission function of a single quantum dot. We show that the maximum power of the heat engine can be improved by about a factor of two, even for a small number of dots, by choosing an optimal structure.