A Minimal Model for Carnot Efficiency at Maximum Power

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Autori principali: Liang, Shiling, Ma, Yu-Han, Busiello, Daniel Maria, Rios, Paolo De Los
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Pubblicazione: 2023
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author Liang, Shiling
Ma, Yu-Han
Busiello, Daniel Maria
Rios, Paolo De Los
author_facet Liang, Shiling
Ma, Yu-Han
Busiello, Daniel Maria
Rios, Paolo De Los
contents Carnot efficiency sets a fundamental upper bound on the heat engine efficiency, attainable in the quasi-static limit, albeit at the cost of completely sacrificing power output. In this Letter, we present a minimal heat engine model that can attain Carnot efficiency while achieving maximum power output. We unveil the potential of intrinsic divergent physical quantities within the working substance, such as degeneracy, as promising thermodynamic resources to break through the universal power-efficiency trade-off imposed by nonequilibrium thermodynamics for conventional heat engines. Our findings provide novel insights into the collective advantage in harnessing energy of many-body interacting systems.
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spellingShingle A Minimal Model for Carnot Efficiency at Maximum Power
Liang, Shiling
Ma, Yu-Han
Busiello, Daniel Maria
Rios, Paolo De Los
Statistical Mechanics
Carnot efficiency sets a fundamental upper bound on the heat engine efficiency, attainable in the quasi-static limit, albeit at the cost of completely sacrificing power output. In this Letter, we present a minimal heat engine model that can attain Carnot efficiency while achieving maximum power output. We unveil the potential of intrinsic divergent physical quantities within the working substance, such as degeneracy, as promising thermodynamic resources to break through the universal power-efficiency trade-off imposed by nonequilibrium thermodynamics for conventional heat engines. Our findings provide novel insights into the collective advantage in harnessing energy of many-body interacting systems.
title A Minimal Model for Carnot Efficiency at Maximum Power
topic Statistical Mechanics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02323