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Maximal Heat Generation in Nanoscale Systems |
| ZHOU Li-Ling1,2, LI Shu-Shen1, ZENG Zhao-Yang2 |
| 1State Key Laboratory for Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 1000832Department of Physics, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022 |
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ZHOU Li-Ling, LI Shu-Shen, ZENG Zhao-Yang 2009 Chin. Phys. Lett. 26 037304 |
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Abstract We investigate the heat generation in a nanoscale system coupled to normal leads and find that it is maximal when the average occupation of the electrons in the nanoscale system is 0.5, no matter what mechanism induces the heat generation.
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71.38.-k
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Received: 01 January 1900
Published: 19 February 2009
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73.23.-b
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(Electronic transport in mesoscopic systems)
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(Polarons and electron-phonon interactions)
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(Quantum dots)
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73.23.Hk
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(Coulomb blockade; single-electron tunneling)
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