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Our magnetotransport measurements of quantum Hall stripes in a high-quality GaAs quantum well in a slightly tilted magnetic field reveal that the orientation of stripes can be changed by temperature. Field-cooling and field-warming…

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Radiative thermal diodes based on two-element structures rectify heat flows thanks to a temperature dependence of material optical properties. The heat transport asymmetry through these systems, however, remains weak without a significant…

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We present a unified description of heat flow in two-terminal hybrid quantum systems. Using simple models, we analytically study nonlinear aspects of heat transfer between various reservoirs: metals, solids, and spin baths, mediated by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Lian-Ao Wu , Claire X. Yu , Dvira Segal

We investigate transport in several translationally invariant spin-1/2 chains in the limit of high temperatures. We concretely consider spin transport in the anisotropic Heisenberg chain, the pure Heisenberg chain within an alternating…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-03 Robin Steinigeweg , Jochen Gemmer

We study the phenomenon of spin-current rectification in a one-dimensional XXZ spin chain in the presence of a thermal drive. In our model a pure spin current is generated by a temperature difference between two harmonic heat baths which in…

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We study the effect of inhomogeneities in the magnetic field on the thermal entanglement of a two spin system. We show that in the ferromagnetic case a very small inhomogeneity is capable to produce large values of thermal entanglement.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Asoudeh , V. Karimipour

The effects of quantum and thermal corrections on the dynamics of a damped nonlinearly kicked harmonic oscillator are studied. This is done via the Quantum Langevin Equation formalism working on a truncated moment expansion of the density…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Rodriguez-Achach , G. Perez , H. Cerdeira

We investigate the asymptotic behaviour of spin-spin correlation functions for the integrable Heisenberg chain. To this end we use the Quantum Transfer Matrix (QTM) technique developed in \cite{AK} which results in a set of non-linear…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-24 A. Klümper , J. R. Reyes Martínez , C. Scheeren , M. Shiroishi

We apply the biorthonormal transfer-matrix renormalization group (BTMRG) [Phys. Rev. E 83, 036702 (2011)] to study low-temperature properties of quantum spin chains. Simulation on isotropic Heisenberg spin-1/2 chain demonstrates that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-12-11 Yu-Kun Huang , Pochung Chen , Ying-Jer Kao

We predict a huge anisotropic thermal magnetoresistance (ATMR) in the near-field radiative heat transfer between magneto-optical particles when the direction of an external magnetic field is changed with respect to the heat current…

We study thermodynamic behaviors of the antiferromagnetic zigzag spin chain in magnetic fields, using the density-matrix renormalization group method for the quantum transfer matrix. We focus on the thermodynamics of the system near the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Nobuya Maeshima , Kouichi Okunishi

Anomalous magnetothermal effects are discussed in the spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain. The energy current is related to one of the non-trivial conserved quantities underlying integrability and therefore both the diagonal and off diagonal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Kazumitsu Sakai , Andreas Klumper

We study heat conduction in (n, 0)/(2n, 0) intramolecular junctions by using molecular dynamics method. It is found that the heat conduction is asymmetric, namely, heat transports preferably in one direction. This phenomenon is also called…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-18 Gang Wu , Baowen Li

We address the role of geometrical asymmetry in the occurrence of spin rectification in two-dimensional quantum spin chains subject to two reservoirs at the boundaries, modeled by quantum master equations. We discuss the differences in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Alessandra Chioquetta , Emmanuel Pereira , Gabriel T. Landi , Raphael C. Drumond

The transport of magnetization is analyzed for the classical Heisenberg chain at and especially above the isotropic point. To this end, the Hamiltonian equations of motion are solved numerically for initial states realizing harmonic-like…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-15 Robin Steinigeweg

The concept of negativity is adapted in order to explore the quantum and thermal entanglement of the mixed spin-(1/2,$S$) Heisenberg dimers in presence of an external magnetic field. The mutual interplay between the spin size $S$, XXZ…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-17 Hana Vargová , Jozef Strečka

We study heat transport in a one-dimensional inhomogeneous quantum spin 1/2 system. It consists of a finite-size XX spin chain coupled at its ends to semi-infinite XX and XY chains at different temperatures, which play the role of heat and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Liliana Arrachea , Gustavo S. Lozano , A. A. Aligia

We study the rectification of near-field radiative heat transfer between two InSb nano-particles due to the presence of non-reciprocal surface modes in a nearby InSb sample when an external magnetic field is applied and its dependence on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Annika Ott , Svend-Age Biehs

In order to identify the basic conditions for thermal rectification we investigate a simple model with non-uniform, graded mass distribution. The existence of thermal rectification is theoretically predicted and numerically confirmed,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-07-06 Jiao Wang , Emmanuel Pereira , Giulio Casati