Carnot cycle at finite power: Attainability of maximal efficiency

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Allahverdyan, Armen E ^a   Hovhannisyan, Karen V ^a,b   Melkikh, Alexey V ^c   Gevorkian, Sasun G ^d  

^a YEREVAN PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Armenia)

^b ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^c URAL FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARNOT EFFICIENCY; LARGE POWER; LONG CYCLE TIME; PROTEIN FOLDING PROBLEM; VANISHING POWER;

CARNOT CYCLE; ENGINES; THERMAL CYCLING;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84881534644     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.050601     Document Type: Article

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