Entropy (Nov 2017)

Magnetic Engine for the Single-Particle Landau Problem

  • Francisco J. Peña,
  • Alejandro González,
  • Alvaro S. Nunez,
  • Pedro A. Orellana,
  • René G. Rojas,
  • Patricio Vargas

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/e19120639
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 12
p. 639

Abstract

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We study the effect of the degeneracy factor in the energy levels of the well-known Landau problem for a magnetic engine. The scheme of the cycle is composed of two adiabatic processes and two isomagnetic processes, driven by a quasi-static modulation of external magnetic field intensity. We derive the analytical expression of the relation between the magnetic field and temperature along the adiabatic process and, in particular, reproduce the expression for the efficiency as a function of the compression ratio.

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