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The field of thermotronics aims to develop thermal circuits that operate with temperature biases and heat currents just as how electronic circuits are based on voltages and electric currents. Here, we investigate a thermal half-wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-29 Pedro Portugal , Christian Flindt , Nicola Lo Gullo

A qubit-oscillator junction connecting as a series two bosonic heat baths at different temperatures can display heat valve and diode effects. In particular, the rectification can change in magnitude and even in sign, implying an inversion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Luca Magazzù , Elisabetta Paladino , Jukka P. Pekola , Milena Grifoni

Vibrational heat transport in molecular junctions is a central issue in different contemporary research areas like Chemistry, material science, mechanical engineering, thermoelectrics and power generation. Our model system consists of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-04 Jayasmita Behera , Malay Bandyopadhyay

As a fundamental requisite for thermotronics, controlling heat flow has been a longstanding quest in solid state physics. Recently, there has been a lot of interest in nanoscale hybrid systems as possible candidates for thermal devices. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-08 D. Oettinger , R. Chitra , Juliana Restrepo

We investigate the heat transport properties of a three-level system coupled to three thermal baths, assuming a model based on superconducting circuit implementations. The system-bath coupling is mediated by resonators which serve as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-11 Israel Díaz , Rafael Sánchez

We consider thermal conduction across a general nonlinear phononic junction. Based on two-time observation protocol and the field theoretical/algebraic method, the cumulants of the heat transferred in both transient and steady-state regimes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-09 Huanan Li , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Baowen Li , Jian-Sheng Wang

We theoretically investigate a quantum heat diode based on two interacting flux qubits coupled to two heat baths. Rectification of heat currents is achieved by asymmetrically coupling the qubits to the reservoirs modelled as dissipative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-25 Andrea Iorio , Elia Strambini , Géraldine Haack , Michele Campisi , Francesco Giazotto

Controlling the direction and magnitude of both heat and electronic currents using rectifiers has significant implications for the advancement of molecular circuit design. In order to facilitate the implementation of new transport phenomena…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-02 Galen T. Craven , Dahai He , Abraham Nitzan

Harmonic oscillator chains connecting two harmonic reservoirs at different constant temperatures cannot act as thermal diodes, irrespective of structural asymmetry. However, here we prove that perfectly harmonic junctions can rectify heat…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Na'im Kalantar , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Dvira Segal

In this Letter, we show numerically that the rectifying effect of heat flux in a one-dimensional two-segment Frenkel-Kontorova chain demonstrated in recent literature is merely available under the limit of the weak coupling between the two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-26 Bambi Hu , Lei Yang , Yong Zhang

To study the full counting statistics of quantum heat transfer in a driven nonequilibrium spin-boson model, we develop a generalized nonequilibrium polaron-transformed Redfield equation with an auxiliary counting field. This enables us to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 Chen Wang , Jie Ren , Jianshu Cao

We study quantum heat exchange in a multi-state impurity coupled to two thermal reservoirs. Allowing for strong system-bath interactions, we show that a steady-state heat exchange fluctuation theorem holds, though the dynamical processes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 L. Nicolin , D. Segal

We investigate the heat transport in a nonequilibrium spin-boson model, where a two level system bridging two harmonic reservoirs at different temperatures, by employing a unitary transformation along with a resolvent operator expansion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Wei Wu

Unsteady heat transfer in a harmonic chain is analyzed. Two types of thermal perturbations are considered: 1) initial instant temperature perturbation, 2) external heat supply. Closed equations describing the heat propagation are obtained…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-26 Anton M. Krivtsov

We study anomalous transport in a one-dimensional system with two conserved quantities in presence of thermal baths. In this system we derive exact expressions of the temperature profile and the two point correlations in steady state as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-10 Priyanka , Aritra Kundu , Abhishek Dhar , Anupam Kundu

Nonlinear heat transfer can be exploited to reveal novel transport phenomena and thus enhance peo-ple's ability to manipulate heat flux at will. However, there hasn't been a mature discipline called nonlinear thermotics like its counterpart…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-10-04 Gaole Dai

We investigate full counting statistics of quantum heat transfer in a collective-qubit system, constructed by multi-qubits interacting with two thermal baths. The nonequilibrium polaron-transformed Redfield approach embedded with an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Xu-Min Chen , Chen Wang

Heat shuttling phenomenon is characterized by the presence of a non-zero heat flow between two bodies without net thermal bias on average. It was initially predicted in the context of nonlinear heat conduction within atomic lattices coupled…

We explore nonequilibrium quantum heat transport in nonlinear bosonic systems in the presence of a non-Kerr-type interaction governed by hyper-parametric oscillation due to two-photon hopping between the two cavities. We estimate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 JungYun Han , Daniel Leykam , Dimitris G. Angelakis , Juzar Thingna

When coupling thermal baths at different temperatures, negative differential thermal conductivity is typically attributed to nonlinear interactions in the connecting medium. In this work, we demonstrate that such an effect can arise purely…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-13 Simon Krekels , Christian Maes , Ion Santra , Ruoxun Zhai