title: Quantum-dot Carnot engine at maximum power.
abstract: We evaluate the efficiency at maximum power of a quantum-dot Carnot heat engine. The universal values of the coefficients at the linear and quadratic order in the temperature gradient are reproduced. Curzon-Ahlborn efficiency is recovered in the limit of weak dissipation.
authors.affiliation: Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP 231, Campus Plaine, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Massimiliano
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Esposito
authors.forename: Ryoichi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kawai
authors.forename: Katja
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lindenberg
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Van den Broeck
mesh_terms: D003080:Cold Temperature; D006358:Hot Temperature; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D045663:Quantum Dots