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Prof. Michele Campisi (Scuola Normale Superiore)27/05/2016, 09:00Since 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...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Benjamin Huard (Ecole Normale Supérieure)27/05/2016, 09:45Quantum 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...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Frank Hekking (Grenoble)27/05/2016, 11:00We 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...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Andrew Semenov (P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute)27/05/2016, 11:45Quantum 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...Go to contribution page
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