A thermoelectric heat engine with ultracold atoms

Science

Volumn 342, Issue 6159, 2013, Pages 713-715

  Brantut, Jean Philippe ^a   Grenier, Charles ^b   Meineke, Jakob ^a,f   Stadler, David ^a   Krinner, Sebastian ^a   Kollath, Corinna ^c   Esslinger, Tilman ^a   Georges, Antoine ^b,d,e  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d Collège de France ^*  (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^f PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; COUPLING; ENGINE; GEOMETRY; POWER GENERATION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

ARTICLE; ATOM; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY CONVERSION; GEOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOELECTRICITY; ULTRACOLD ATOM;

EID: 84887317823     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1242308     Document Type: Article

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