Thermoelectric efficiency in momentum-conserving systems

We show that for a two-dimensional gas of elastically interacting particles the thermoelectric efficiency reaches the Carnot efficiency in the thermodynamic limit. Numerical simulations, by means of the multi-particle collision dynamics method, show that this result is robust under perturbations. Th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Giuliano Benenti, Giulio Casati, Carlos Mejía-Monasterio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2014-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/16/1/015014