Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2006-05-10
A summary of this paper has been published in AIP Conf. Proc. 893, 801 (2007)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
10 pages, 4 figures, v3: more references added and discussed, some typos corrected
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.2730133
We calculate the electronic contribution to the thermal conductance in a quantum dot that is weakly coupled via tunnel barriers to two electrons reservoirs. A linear response model is derived for the calculation of the heat current Q through the quantum dot when a small temperature difference and a small voltage difference are applied between the two reservoirs. We find that the thermal conductance oscillates as a function of the Fermi energy. The periodicity of these oscillations is the same as this of the Coulomb blockade oscillations of the conductance. In the quantum limit the peak values of the thermal conductance tends to zero as exp(-DE/kT) where DE is the spacing between the energy levels in the dot. This surprising result implies the failure of the Wiedemann-Franz law in the quantum limit and it could lead to structures with large figure of merit ZT. We have also examined the behavior of the thermal conductance in the classical limit and we find that the Wiedemann-Franz is recovered.
Triberis George P.
Tsaousidou Margarita
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