Thermoelectric transport and Peltier cooling of cold atomic gases

Charles Grenier; Corinna Kollath; Antoine Georges

doi:10.1016/j.crhy.2016.08.013

Thermoelectric mesoscopic phenomena / Phénomènes thermoélectriques mésoscopiques

Thermoelectric transport and Peltier cooling of cold atomic gases
[Transport themoélectrique et refroidissement Peltier dans des gaz d'atomes froids]

Charles Grenier ¹ ; Corinna Kollath ² ; Antoine Georges ^3,^4,⁵

¹ Laboratoire de physique, ENS de Lyon, Université de Lyon, CNRS, 46, allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon, France
² HISKP, University of Bonn, Nussallee 14–16, 53115 Bonn, Germany
³ Collège de France, 11, place Marcelin-Berthelot, 75005 Paris, France
⁴ Centre de physique théorique, École polytechnique, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, 91128 Palaiseau, France
⁵ DQMP, Université de Genève, CH-1211 Genève, Switzerland

Comptes Rendus. Physique, Volume 17 (2016) no. 10, pp. 1161-1174.

Résumé
Abstract

Cette courte revue présente le domaine émergent de la physique mésoscopique avec les atomes froids, et met l'accent sur le transport thermique et « thermoélectrique », c'est-à-dire le transport couplé de particules et d'entropie. Nous comparons notamment des prédictions théoriques à des observations expérimentales d'effets thermoélectriques au sein de ces systèmes. Nous montrons aussi comment la combinaison de propriétés de transport bien adaptées et du refroidissement évaporatif conduit à l'équivalent d'un effet Peltier pour atomes froids, pouvant fournir une nouvelle méthode de refroidissement présentant un rendement et une puissance améliorés en comparaison du refroidissement évaporatif usuellement utilisé dans les gaz d'atomes froids. Ceci pourrait conduire à une nouvelle génération d'expériences permettant de sonder les effets de corrélations fortes dans les gaz d'atomes fermioniques ultra-froids aux basses températures.

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.

Publié le : 2016-09-19

DOI : 10.1016/j.crhy.2016.08.013

Keywords: Cold atoms, Transport, Thermoelectricity, Mesoscopic physics
Mot clés : Atomes froids, Transport, Thermoélectricité, Physique mésoscopique

Affiliations des auteurs :

Charles Grenier ¹ ; Corinna Kollath ² ; Antoine Georges ^{3, 4, 5}

¹ Laboratoire de physique, ENS de Lyon, Université de Lyon, CNRS, 46, allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon, France
² HISKP, University of Bonn, Nussallee 14–16, 53115 Bonn, Germany
³ Collège de France, 11, place Marcelin-Berthelot, 75005 Paris, France
⁴ Centre de physique théorique, École polytechnique, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, 91128 Palaiseau, France
⁵ DQMP, Université de Genève, CH-1211 Genève, Switzerland

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Charles Grenier; Corinna Kollath; Antoine Georges. Thermoelectric transport and Peltier cooling of cold atomic gases. Comptes Rendus. Physique, Volume 17 (2016) no. 10, pp. 1161-1174. doi : 10.1016/j.crhy.2016.08.013. https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/physique/articles/10.1016/j.crhy.2016.08.013/

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