Magnetically Induced Thermal Rectification
Statistical Mechanics
2008-07-15 v1
Abstract
We consider far from equilibrium heat transport in chaotic billiard chains with non-interacting charged particles in the presence of non-uniform transverse magnetic field. If half of the chain is placed in a strong magnetic field, or if the strength of the magnetic field has a large gradient along the chain, heat current is shown to be asymmetric with respect to exchange of the temperatures of the heat baths. Thermal rectification factor can be arbitrarily large for sufficiently small temperature of one of the baths.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0611250,
title = {Magnetically Induced Thermal Rectification},
author = {Giulio Casati and Carlos Mejia-Monasterio and Tomaz Prosen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0611250},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
4 pages, 5 figures