Prof.
Michele Campisi
(Scuola Normale Superiore)
27/05/2016, 09:00
Since its inception about two centuries ago thermodynamics
has sparkled continuous interest and fundamental questions.
According to the second law no heat engine can have an
efficiency larger than Carnot’s efficiency. The latter can
be achieved by the Carnot engine, which however ideally
operates in infinite time, hence delivers null power. A
currently open question is whether the Carnot...
Prof.
Benjamin Huard
(Ecole Normale Supérieure)
27/05/2016, 09:45
Quantum thermodynamics of information addresses the link
between information and energy in the quantum regime.
Entanglement and measurement backaction are known to deeply
affect information processing and their impact on quantum
thermodynamics has attracted a lot of theoretical activity.
A basic illustration of these ideas consists in devising a
quantum version of the Maxwell demon that...
Prof.
Frank Hekking
(Grenoble)
27/05/2016, 11:00
We study the thermoelectric transport of a small metallic
island weakly coupled to two electrodes by tunnel junctions.
In the Coulomb blockade regime, in the case when the ground
state of the system corresponds to an even number of
electrons on the island, the main mechanism of electron
transport at lowest temperatures is elastic cotunneling. In
this regime, the transport coefficients...
Prof.
Andrew Semenov
(P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute)
27/05/2016, 11:45
Quantum phase slips (QPS) generate voltage fluctuations in
superconducting nanowires. Employing Keldysh technique and
making use of the phase-charge duality arguments we develop
a theory of QPS-induced voltage noise in such nanowires. We
demonstrate that quantum tunneling of the magnetic flux
quanta across the wire yields quantum shot noise which obeys
Poisson statistics and is...