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The thermoelectric transport through a molecular bridge is discussed, with an emphasis on the effects of inelastic processes of the transport electrons caused by the coupling to the vibrational modes of the molecule. In particular it is…

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Unlike macroscopic engines, the molecular machinery of living cells is strongly affected by fluctuations. Stochastic Thermodynamics uses Markovian jump processes to model the random transitions between the chemical and configurational…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-19 Bernhard Altaner , Artur Wachtel , Jürgen Vollmer

We use nonequilibrium molecular dynamics to analyze and illustrate the qualitative differences between the one-thermostat and two-thermostat versions of equilibrium and nonequilibrium (heat-conducting) harmonic oscillators. Conservative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Julien Clinton Sprott , William Graham Hoover , Carol Griswold Hoover

Given the large anisotropy of transport processes in magnetized plasmas, the magnetic field structure can strongly impact heat diffusion: magnetic surfaces and cantori form barriers to transport while chaotic layers and island structures…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-08 Elizabeth J. Paul , Stuart R. Hudson , Per Helander

We review recent developments in nonlinear quantum transport through nanostructures and mesoscopic systems driven by thermal gradients or in combination with voltage biases. Low-dimensional conductors are excellent platforms to analyze both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-14 David Sanchez , Rosa Lopez

We study electronic transport through a quantum dot in the Fermi-edge singularity regime, placing emphasis on its non-Markovian attributes. These are quantified by the behavior of current noise as well as trace-distance-based measure of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-05 Katarzyna Roszak , Tomáš Novotný

We study full counting statistics for classical heat transport through anharmonic/nonlinear molecular junctions formed by interacting oscillators. Analytical result of the steady state heat flux for an overdamped anharmonic junction with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-13 Sha Liu , Bjiay Kumar Agarwalla , Jian-Sheng Wang , Baowen Li

We study the dynamics of covariances in a chain of harmonic oscillators with conservative noise in contact with two stochastic Langevin heat baths. The noise amounts to random collisions between nearest-neighbour oscillators that exchange…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-10 S. Lepri , C. Mejia-Monasterio , A. Politi

In this work we theoretically study properties of electric current driven by a temperature gradient through a quantum dot/molecule coupled to the source and drain charge reservoirs. We analyze the effect of Coulomb interactions between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-01 Natalya A. Zimbovskaya

We generalize the classical theory of Brownian motion so as to reckon with non-Markovian effects on both Klein-Kramers and Smoluchowski equations. For a free particle and a harmonic oscillator, it is shown that such non-Markovian effects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. O. Bolivar

We explore transport properties in a disordered nonlinear chain of classical harmonic oscillators and thereby identify a regime exhibiting behavior analogous to that seen in quantum many-body-localized systems. Through extensive numerical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Manoj Kumar , Anupam Kundu , Manas Kulkarni , David A. Huse , Abhishek Dhar

The exploitation and characterization of memory effects arising from the interaction between system and environment is a key prerequisite for quantum reservoir engineering beyond the standard Markovian limit. In this paper we investigate a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 S. Hamedani Raja , M. Borrelli , R. Schmidt , J. P. Pekola , S. Maniscalco

We study the statistical mechanics of a finite-dimensional non-linear Hamiltonian system (a chain of anharmonic oscillators) coupled to two heat baths (described by wave equations). Assuming that the initial conditions of the heat baths are…

chao-dyn · Physics 2016-08-31 Jean-Pierre Eckmann , Claude-Alain Pillet , Luc Rey-Bellet

Thermal conduction is an important energy transfer and damping mechanism in astrophysical flows. Fourier's law - the heat flux is proportional to the negative temperature gradient, leading to temperature diffusion - is a well-known…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Daniel Lecoanet , Benjamin P. Brown , Ellen G. Zweibel , Keaton J. Burns , Jeffrey S. Oishi , Geoffrey M. Vasil

We derive a non-Markovian master equation for a charged particle in a magnetic field coupled to a bath and study decoherence by analysing the temporal decay of the off-diagonal elements of the reduced density matrix in the position basis.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Suraka Bhattacharjee , Koushik Mandal , Supurna Sinha

A living non-Newtonian matter like the cell cortex and tissues are driven out-of-equilibrium at multiple spatial and temporal scales. The stochastic dynamics of a particle embedded in such a medium are non-Markovian, given by a generalized…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-06-30 Amit Singh Vishen

An analytical model of high frequency oscillations of the kinetic and potential energies in a one-dimensional harmonic crystal with a substrate potential is obtained by introducing the nonlocal energies [1]. A generalization of the kinetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-07 Mikhail B. Babenkov , Anton M. Krivtsov , Denis V. Tsvetkov

We study the interplay of intrinsic-electronic and environmental factors on long-range charge transport across molecular chains with up to $N\sim 80$ monomers. We describe the molecular electronic structure of the chain with a tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Francisco Lai Liang , Dvira Segal

Thermal transport in low-dimensional semiconductors is crucial for advancing thermal management in nanoelectronics, quantum devices, and thermoelectric devices. Recent molecular dynamics (MD) studies have identified a nonmonotonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Lokanath Patra , Mayur Pratap Singh , Satish Kumar

The amount of heat an integer quantum Hall edge state can carry in equilibrium is quantized in universal units of the heat flux quantum $J_q= \frac{\pi k_B^2}{12 \hbar}T^2$ per edge state. We adress the question of how heat transport in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Florian Stäbler , Eugene Sukhorukov
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