Ballistic thermal rectification in nanoscale three-terminal junctions
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2010-03-29 v1
Abstract
We study ballistic thermal transport in three-terminal atomic nanojunctions by the nonequilibrium Green's function method. We find that there is ballistic thermal rectification in asymmetric three-terminal structures because of the incoherent phonon scattering from the control terminal. With spin-phonon interaction, we also find the ballistic thermal rectification even in symmetric three-terminal paramagnetic structures.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1003.5030,
title = {Ballistic thermal rectification in nanoscale three-terminal junctions},
author = {Lifa Zhang and Jian-Sheng Wang and Baowen Li},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.5030},
year = {2010}
}
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4 pages, 6 figures