Journal
COMPTES RENDUS PHYSIQUE
Volume 17, Issue 10, Pages 1161-1174Publisher
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.crhy.2016.08.013
Keywords
Cold atoms; Transport; Thermoelectricity; Mesoscopic physics
Funding
- ETH Schrodinger chair
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche
- DARPA/MURI OLE program
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) through the Collaborative Research Center [TR185]
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This brief review presents the emerging field of mesoscopic physics with cold atoms, with an emphasis on thermal and 'thermoelectric' transport, i.e. coupled transport of particles and entropy. We review in particular the comparison between theoretically predicted and experimentally observed thermoelectric effects in such systems. We also show how combining well-designed transport properties and evaporative cooling leads to an equivalent of the Peltier effect with cold atoms, which can be used as a new cooling procedure with improved cooling power and efficiency compared to the evaporative cooling currently used in atomic gases. This could lead to a new generation of experiments probing strong correlation effects of ultracold fermionic atoms at low temperatures. (C) 2016 Academie des sciences. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS.
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