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An all-optical nanomechanical heat engine
arXiv
Authors: Andreas Dechant, Nikolai Kiesel, Eric Lutz
Year
2014
Paper ID
47975
Status
Preprint
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We propose and theoretically investigate a nanomechanical heat engine. We show how a levitated nanoparticle in a harmonic optical trap inside an optical cavity can be used to realize a Stirling cycle in the underdamped regime. The all-optical approach enables fast and exible control of all the thermodynamical parameters and the effcient optimization of the performance of the engine. We develop a systematic optimization procedure to determine optimal driving protocols. We further perform numerical simulations with realistic parameters and evaluate the maximum power and the corresponding effciency.
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