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Heat pump driven by the shot noise of a tunnel contactRobert Hussein, Sigmund Kohler, and Fernando SolsPhysica E 77, 156 (2016) We investigate a mechanism for cooling a lead based on a process that replaces hot electrons by cold ones. The central idea is that a double quantum dot with an inhomogeneous Zeeman splitting acts as energy filter for the transported electrons. The setup is such that hot electrons with spin up are removed, while cold electrons with spin down are added. The required non-equilibrium condition is provided by the capacitive coupling of one quantum dot to the shot noise of a strongly biased quantum point contact in the tunneling limit. Special attention is paid to the identification of an operating regime in which the net electrical current vanishes. arXiv:1507.04270 [cond-mat] |
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