Solar cell as a self-oscillating heat engine

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/49/1/015002zbMATH Open1342.81213arXiv1501.00701OpenAlexW3100776423MaRDI QIDQ2994529FDOQ2994529

Authors: Robert Alicki, David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky, Krzysztof Szczygielski 

Publication date: 2 August 2016

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Solar cells are engines converting energy supplied by the photon flux into work. All known types of macroscopic engines and turbines are also self-oscillating systems which yield a periodic motion at the expense of a usually non-periodic source of energy. The very definition of work in the formalism of quantum open systems suggests the hypothesis that the oscillating "piston" is a necessary ingredient of the work extraction process. This aspect of solar cell operation is absent in the existing descriptions and the main goal of this paper is to show that plasma oscillations provide the physical implementation of a piston.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.00701

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zbMATH Keywords

master equationssolar cellquantum open systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22)

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