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We explore layered strongly correlated materials as a platform to identify and control unconventional heat transfer phenomena. We demonstrate that these systems can be tailored to sustain a wide spectrum of heat transport regimes, ranging…

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We present a thermal rectification device concept based on far-field radiative exchange between two selective emitters. Rectification is achieved due to the fact that one of the selective emitters radiative properties are independent on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-14 Elyes Nefzaoui , Jérémie Drevillon , Younès Ezzahri , Karl Joulain

The much sought after optical transistor --the photonic counterpart of the electronic transistor-- is poised to become a central ingredient in the development of optical signal processing. The motivation for using photons rather than…

Nanomechanical resonators have emerged as sensors with exceptional sensitivities. These sensing capabilities open new possibilities in the studies of the thermodynamic properties in condensed matter. Here, we use mechanical sensing as a…

The model of thermal rectifier based on the asymmetry of interaction of the molecular chain ends with thermostats is proposed in this work. The rectification mechanism is not related to the chain asymmetry, but to the asymmetry of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Alexander V. Savin

The emerging field of phase-coherent caloritronics (from the Latin word "calor", i.e., heat) is based on the possibility to control heat currents using the phase difference of the superconducting order parameter. The goal is to design and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-09 Antonio Fornieri , Francesco Giazotto

We theoretically study thermal transport in an electronic interferometer comprising a parallel circuit of two quantum dots, each of which has a tunable single electronic state which are connected to two leads at different temperature.As a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sam Young Cho , Ross H. McKenzie

We describe the different regimes of finite temperature dynamics in the vicinity of a zero temperature superconductor to insulator quantum phase transition in two dimensions. New results are obtained for a low temperature phase-only…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Subir Sachdev , Oleg A. Starykh

A nanoscale device consisting of a metal nanowire, a dielectric, and a gate is proposed. A combination of quantum and thermal stochastic effects enable the device to have multiple functionalities, serving alternately as a transistor, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-06 J. Bürki , C. A. Stafford , D. L. Stein

Inspired by some recent experiments and numerical works related to nanoresonators, we perform classical molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the thermal expansion and the ability of the device to act as a strain sensor assisted by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Agustín Mancardo Viotti , Alejandro G. Monastra , Mariano F. Moreno , M. Florencia Carusela

Transverse thermoelectric effects interconvert charge and heat currents in orthogonal directions due to the breaking of either time-reversal symmetry or structural symmetry, enabling simple and versatile thermal energy harvesting and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-30 Hiroto Adachi , Fuyuki Ando , Takamasa Hirai , Rajkumar Modak , Matthew A. Grayson , Ken-ichi Uchida

The authors use two insulator layers in thermotunnel refrigerator to modify the shape of the tunneling barrier so that electrons with high kinetic energy pass it with increased probability. Theoretical analysis show that the overall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-17 Avto Tavkhelidze , Vasiko Svanidze , Leri Tsakadze

We propose a quantum heat transformer (QHT), a quantum thermodynamic device that modulates temperature gradients between two thermal junctions in quantum systems. Functionally, the QHT is analogous to classical absorption heat transformers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Arghya Maity , Paranjoy Chaki , Ahana Ghoshal , Ujjwal Sen

This work builds on the previous introduction [1] of a coupled experimental-computational system devised to fully characterize the thermal behavior of complex 3D submicron electronic devices. The new system replaces the laser-based surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-09-13 Peter E. Raad , Pavel L. Komarov , M. Burzo

Self-heating in next-generation, high-power-density field-effect transistor limits performance and complicates fabrication. Here, we introduce NEP-FET, a machine-learned framework for device-scale heat transport simulations of field-effect…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-26 Ke Xu , Gang Wang , Ting Liang , Yang Xiao , Dongliang Ding , Haichang Guo , Xiang Gao , Lei Tong , Xi Wan , Gang Zhang , Jianbin Xu

In this article we review the thermoelectric properties of three terminal devices with Coulomb coupled quantum dots (QDs) as observed in recent experiments [1,2]. The system we consider consists of two Coulomb-blockade QDs one of which can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Holger Thierschmann , Rafael Sánchez , Björn Sothmann , Hartmut Buhmann , Laurens W. Molenkamp

Thermoelectricity is the direct conversion of temperature gradient to electric voltage, and vice-versa. There are several potential applications of thermoelectricity, ranging from clean noiseless cooling, to waste-power harvesting in…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-18 Yehea Ismail , Ahmed Alaskalany

From the steam engine to current nano-devices, the design of efficient thermal machines has been instrumental in modern societies. In its essence a thermal engine can be thought as a working substance, in contact with two or more baths,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-03-18 Michele Campisi , Rosario Fazio

In a multi-terminal setup, when time-reversal symmetry is broken by a magnetic field, the heat flows can be managed by designing a device with programmable Boolean behavior. We show that such device can be used to implement operations like…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Riccardo Bosisio , Stefano Valentini , Francesco Mazza , Giuliano Benenti , Rosario Fazio , Vittorio Giovannetti , Fabio Taddei

Numerous proposed and developed superconducting fault current limiters and self-limiting transformers limit successfully fault currents but do not provide uninterrupted supplying of consumers. A design investigated in the work combines the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Meerovich , V. Sokolovsky