Browsing Física by Subject "quantum thermodynamics"

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    • A thermodynamic cycle for the solar cell 

      Alicki, Robert; Gelbwaser Klimovsky, David; Jenkins Villalobos, Alejandro (2017-01-06)
      A solar cell is a heat engine, but textbook treatments are not wholly satisfactory from a thermodynamic standpoint, since they present solar cells as directly converting the energy of light into electricity, and the current ...

    • Quantum Theory of Triboelectricity 

      Alicki, Robert; Jenkins Villalobos, Alejandro (2020-10-30)
      We propose a microphysical theory of the triboelectric effect by which mechanical rubbing separates charges across the interface between two materials. Surface electrons are treated as an open system coupled to two baths, ...

    • The Josephson junction as a quantum engine 

      Alicki, Robert; Horodecki, Michal; Jenkins Villalobos, Alejandro; Lobejko, Marcin; Suárez, Gerardo (2023-11-10)
      We treat the Cooper pairs in the superconducting electrodes of a Josephson junction (JJ) as an open system, coupled via Andreev scattering to external baths of electrons. The disequilibrium between the baths generates the ...