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1by Whitney, Robert Published in Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) (27.05.2016)“...Entropy 18, 208 (2016) We consider the nonlinear scattering theory for three-terminal thermoelectric devices, used for power generation or refrigeration. Such...”
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2by Benenti, Giuliano Casati, Giulio Saito, Keiji Whitney, Robert S Published in Physics reports (09.06.2017)“...In recent years, the study of heat to work conversion has been re-invigorated by nanotechnology. Steady-state devices do this conversion without any...”
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3“...We consider the thermoelectric response of chaotic or disordered quantum dots in the limit of phase-coherent transport, statistically described by random...”
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4by Whitney, Robert S Published in Physical review. B (01.08.2018)“...Phys. Rev. B 98, 085415 (2018) This work brings together Keldysh non-equilibrium quantum theory and thermodynamics, by showing that a real-time diagrammatic...”
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5by Sánchez, Rafael Splettstoesser, Janine Whitney, Robert S Published in Physical review letters (22.11.2019)“...Maxwell demons are creatures that are imagined to be able to reduce the entropy of a system without performing any work on it. Conventionally, such a Maxwell...”
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6by Jussiau, Étienne Hasegawa, Masahiro Whitney, Robert S Published in Physical review. B (01.09.2019)“...Phys. Rev. B 100, 115411 (2019) We study a quantum dot coupled to two semiconducting reservoirs, when the dot level and the electrochemical potential are both...”
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7by Whitney, Robert S Sánchez, Rafael Haupt, Federica Splettstoesser, Janine Published in Physica. E, Low-dimensional systems & nanostructures (01.01.2016)“...We analyze the power output of a quantum dot machine coupled to two electronic reservoirs via thermoelectric contacts, and to two thermal reservoirs – one hot...”
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8by Hajiloo, Fatemeh Sánchez, Rafael Whitney, Robert S Splettstoesser, Janine Published in Physical review. B (06.10.2020)“...We investigate a multiterminal mesoscopic conductor in the quantum Hall regime, subject to temperature and voltage biases. The device can be considered as a...”
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9by Whitney, Robert S Published in Physical review letters (04.04.2014)“...Machines are only Carnot efficient if they are reversible, but then their power output is vanishingly small. Here we ask, what is the maximum efficiency of an...”
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10by Whitney, Robert S Sánchez, Rafael Splettstoesser, Janine Whitney, Robert S Published in Physical review letters (19.11.2019)“...Maxwell demons are creatures that are imagined to be able to reduce the entropy of a system without performing any work on it. Conventionally, such a Maxwell...”
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11by Whitney, Robert S Published in Journal of physics. A, Mathematical and theoretical (02.05.2008)“...J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 41, 175304 (2008) The perturbative master equation (Bloch-Redfield) is extensively used to study dissipative quantum mechanics -...”
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12by Whitney, Robert S Published in Physical review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics (01.03.2015)“...Phys. Rev. B 91, 115425 (2015) We investigate the nonlinear scattering theory for quantum systems with strong Seebeck and Peltier effects, and consider their...”
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13by Hasegawa, Masahiro Jussiau, Étienne Whitney, Robert S Published in Physical review. B (01.09.2019)“...We use exact techniques to demonstrate theoretically the pumping of fractional charges in a single-level non-interacting quantum dot, when the dot-reservoir...”
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14“...We construct a theory of coherent transport through a ballistic quantum dot coupled to a superconductor. We show that the leading-order quantum correction to...”
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15“...We predict a huge interference effect contributing to the conductance through large ultraclean quantum dots of chaotic shape. When a double-dot structure is...”
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16“...We construct a trajectory-based semiclassical theory of shot noise in clean chaotic cavities. In the universal regime of vanishing Ehrenfest time tau(E), we...”
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17by Whitney, Robert S Clusel, Maxime Ziman, Timothy Published in Physical review letters (18.11.2011)“...We consider sweeping a system through a Landau-Zener avoided crossing, when that system is also coupled to an environment or noise. Unsurprisingly, we find...”
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18by Whitney, Robert S Published in Physical review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics (01.03.2013)“...Phys. Rev. B 87, 115404 (2013) I consider the non-equilibrium DC transport of electrons through a quantum system with a thermoelectric response. This system...”
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20by Whitney, Robert S Published in Physical review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics (01.08.2013)“...Phys. Rev. B, 88, 064302 (2013) We consider refrigeration and heat engine circuits based on the nonlinear thermoelectric response of point-contacts at...”