Quantum Thermal Rectification to design thermal diodes and transistors
Quantum Physics
2017-03-08 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Abstract
We study in this article how heat can be exchanged between two level systems (TLS) each of them being coupled to a thermal reservoir. Calculation are performed solving a master equation for the density matrix using the Born markov-approximation. We analyse the conditions for which a thermal diode and a thermal transistor can be obtained as well as their optimization.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1609.05163,
title = {Quantum Thermal Rectification to design thermal diodes and transistors},
author = {Karl Joulain and Younes Ezzahri and Jose Ordonez-Miranda},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.05163},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1602.04175