最佳能量量子-电流转换
Optimal energy quanta to current conversion
摘要：
我们提出了一个微观的讨论纳米尺寸的结构，它使用的量子化的能级和单电荷库仑相互作用的物理实现了最佳的转换的热流定向电流。在我们的结构中，能级的量子化和库仑阻塞导致量子化的能量包从热源转移到电容耦合的电导体。由涨落引起的单个能量量子的转移转化为单个电子的定向运动，因此在我们的结构中，电荷电流与热流的比值由电荷量子与能量量子的比值决定。我们的方法的一个重要的新颖方面是，能量流的方向和电子运动的方向是解耦的。
英文摘要：
We present a microscopic discussion of a nano-sized structure which uses the quantization of energy levels and the physics of single charge Coulomb interaction to achieve an optimal conversion of heat flow to directed current. In our structure the quantization of energy levels and the Coulomb blockade lead to the transfer of quantized packets of energy from a hot source into an electric conductor to which it is capacitively coupled. The fluctuation generated transfer of a single energy quantum translates into the directed motion of a single electron. Thus in our structure the ratio of the charge current to the heat current is determined by the ratio of the charge quantum to the energy quantum. An important novel aspect of our approach is that the direction of energy flow and the direction of electron motion are decoupled.
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