Minimal self-contained quantum refrigeration machine based on four quantum dots

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 25, 2013, Pages

  Venturelli, Davide ^a,b   Fazio, Rosario ^a   Giovannetti, Vittorio ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NANOSCIENZE CNR   (Italy)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC QUANTUM; HEAT EXTRACTION; THEORETICAL STUDY; THERMAL RESERVOIR;

REFRIGERATORS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84879209692     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.256801     Document Type: Article

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