Strong bounds on Onsager coefficients and efficiency for three-terminal thermoelectric transport in a magnetic field.

For thermoelectric transport in the presence of a magnetic field that breaks time-reversal symmetry, a strong bound on the Onsager coefficients is derived within a general setup using three terminals. Asymmetric Onsager coefficients lead to a maximum efficiency substantially smaller than the Carnot efficiency reaching only η(C)/4 in the limit of strong asymmetry. Related bounds are derived for efficiency at maximum power, which can become larger than the Curzon-Ahlborn value η(C)/2, and for a cooling device. Our approach reveals that in the presence of reversible currents the standard analysis based on the positivity of entropy production is incomplete without considering the role of current conservation explicitly.

• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Physical Review Letters

• Publication date

  2013-01-03

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics

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  DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.070603arXiv 1301.0492PMID 25166361
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