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Thermally driven classical Heisenberg model in one dimension with a local time-varying field

Statistical Mechanics 2015-06-16 v1

Abstract

We study thermal transport in the one dimensional classical Heisenberg model driven by boundary heat baths in presence of a local time varying magnetic field that acts at one end of the system. The system is studied numerically using an energy conserving discrete-time odd even dynamics. We find that the steady state energy current shows thermal resonance as the frequency of the time- periodic forcing is varied. When the amplitude of the forcing field is increased the system exhibits multiple resonance peaks instead of a single peak. Both single and multiresonance survive in the thermodynamic limit and their magnitudes increase as the average temperature of the system is decreased. Finally we show that, although a reversed thermal current can be made to flow through the bulk for a certain range of the forcing frequency, the system fails to behave as a heat pump, thus revalidating the fact that thermal pumping is generically absent in such force-driven lattices.

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@article{arxiv.1307.5419,
  title  = {Thermally driven classical Heisenberg model in one dimension with a local time-varying field},
  author = {Debarshee Bagchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.5419},
  year   = {2015}
}