In recent years, the study of heat to work conversion has been re-invigorated by
nanotechnology. Steady-state devices do this conversion without any macroscopic moving …

Electronic circuits operating at sub-kelvin temperatures are attractive candidates for studying
classical and quantum thermodynamics: their temperature can be controlled and measured …

Cyclical heat engines are a paradigm of classical thermodynamics, but are impractical for
miniaturization because they rely on moving parts. A more recent concept is particle …

We review recent theoretical work on thermoelectric energy harvesting in multi-terminal
quantum-dot setups. We first discuss several examples of nanoscale heat engines based on …

We present a microscopic discussion of a nano-sized structure which uses the quantization
of energy levels and the physics of single charge Coulomb interaction to achieve an optimal …

We propose a nanoscale heat engine that utilizes the physics of resonant tunneling in
quantum dots in order to transfer electrons only at specific energies. The nanoengine …

A superconductor with a gap in the density of states or a quantum dot with discrete energy
levels is a central building block in realizing an electronic on-chip cooler. They can work as …

We demonstrate experimentally an autonomous nanoscale energy harvester that utilizes the
physics of resonant tunneling quantum dots. Gate-defined quantum dots on GaAs/AlGaAs …

In this Colloquium recent advances in the field of quantum heat transport are reviewed. This
topic has been investigated theoretically for several decades, but only during the past 20 …

A two-site nanostructure (eg, a molecule) bridging two conducting leads and connected to a
phonon bath is considered. The two relevant levels closest to the Fermi energy are each …