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PHYSICAL REVIEW APPLIED
Volume 4, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.4.011001
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- Spanish Government [FIS2011-22603]
- FPI (Formacion de Personal Investigador) scholarship from the Spanish Government [BES-2012-054782]
- Generalitat de Catalunya under program ICREA (Institucio Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats) academia
- CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) energy program
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Near-field heat engines are devices that convert the evanescent thermal field supported by a primary source into usable mechanical energy. By analyzing the thermodynamic performance of three-body near-field heat engines, we demonstrate that the power they supply can be substantially larger than that of two-body systems, showing their strong potential for energy harvesting. Theoretical limits for energy and entropy fluxes in three-body systems are discussed and compared with their corresponding two-body counterparts. Such considerations confirm that the thermodynamic availability in energy-conversion processes driven by three-body photon tunneling can exceed the thermodynamic availability in two-body systems.
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