Thermodynamic Bound on Heat-to-Power Conversion
Thermodynamic Bound on Heat-to-Power Conversion
In systems described by the scattering theory, there is an upper bound, lower than Carnot, on the efficiency of steady-state heat-to-work conversion at a given output power. We show that interacting systems can overcome such bound and saturate, in the thermodynamic limit, the much more favorable linear-response bound. This result …