Beating Carnot efficiency with periodically driven chiral conductors

The power generated by an ideal thermal machine cannot exceed the Carnot limit in classical physics. Here, Ryu et al., demonstrate that a periodically driven quantum chiral conductor can exhibit efficiencies beyond the Carnot limit while the second law of thermodynamics is preserved.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sungguen Ryu, Rosa López, Llorenç Serra, David Sánchez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30039-7