Thermodynamic bounds on efficiency for systems with broken time-reversal symmetry

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 106, Issue 23, 2011, Pages

  Benenti, Giuliano ^a,b   Saito, Keiji ^c,d   Casati, Giulio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY PARAMETER; BROKEN TIME-REVERSAL SYMMETRY; CARNOT EFFICIENCY; LINEAR RESPONSE; MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY; MAXIMUM POWER; STRONG COUPLING; TWO PARAMETER;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 79960645250     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.230602     Document Type: Article

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