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This mini-review addresses a bedrock problem for the advance of phononics: the building of feasible and efficient thermal diodes. We revisit investigations in classical and quantum systems. For the classical anharmonic chains of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Emmanuel Pereira

Understanding the thermodynamic role of measurement in quantum mechanical systems is a burgeoning field of study. In this article, we study a double quantum dot (DQD) connected to two macroscopic fermionic thermal reservoirs. We assume that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Laetitia P. Bettmann , Michael J. Kewming , John Goold

We report the realization of an ultra-efficient low-temperature hybrid heat current rectifier, thermal counterpart of the well-known electric diode. Our design is based on a tunnel junction between two different elements: a normal metal and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-13 M. J. Martínez-Pérez , A. Fornieri , F. Giazotto

We propose a thermal transistor based on a three-terminal normal-superconductor (NS) junction with superconductor terminal acting as the base. The emergence of heat amplification is due to the negative differential thermal conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 Gaomin Tang , Jiebin Peng , Jian-Sheng Wang

A quantum thermal diode, similar to an electronic diode, allows for unidirectional heat transmission. In this paper, we study a quantum thermal diode composed of two two-level atoms coupled to auxiliary two-level atoms. We find that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Qin Zhang , Zi-chen Zhang , Yi-jia Yang , Zheng Liu , Chang-shui Yu

The tunneling conductance is calculated as a function of the gate voltage in wide temperature range for the single quantum dot systems with Coulomb interaction. We assume that two orbitals are active for the tunneling process. We show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Wataru Izumida , Osamu Sakai , Yukihiro Shimizu

We calculate conductance through a quantum dot weakly coupled to metallic contacts by means of Keldysh out of equilibrium formalism. We model the quantum dot with the SU(2) Anderson model and consider the limit of infinite Coulomb…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-19 Leandro Tosi , Pablo Roura-Bas , Ana María Llois , Armando A. Aligia

We have studied theoretically the Kondo effect in the quantum dot(QD) within the whole range of temperature by using the equation-of-motion(EOM) technique based on the non-equilibrium Green function formalism. We have taken the finiteness…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-09-12 Kuk-Chol Ri , Chol-Won Ri , Gum-Hyok Jong

We study the thermopower and some related transport quantities due to the orbital Kondo effect in a single quantum dot system with a finite value of Coulomb repulsion by means of the noncrossing approximation applied to the multiorbital…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rui Sakano , Tomoko Kita , Norio Kawakami

Thermal rectification and negative differential thermal resistance are two important features that have direct technological relevance. In this paper, we study the classical one dimensional Heisenberg model, thermally driven by heat baths…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-23 Debarshee Bagchi

The phase and thermal driven transport properties of the T-shaped uncorrelated double quantum dot Josephson junction are analyzed by using Keldysh non-equilibrium Green's function equation of motion technique. In this setup, we have shown…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-10 Bhupendra Kumar , Sachin Verma , Ajay

We investigate a thermoelectric nano-engine whose properties are steered by Coulomb interaction. The device whose design decouples charge and energy currents is made up of two interacting quantum dots connected to three different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 A. -M. Daré , P. Lombardo

The charge transport behaviors of parallel double single electron transistors (SETs) are investigated by the Anderson model with two impurity levels. The nonequilibrium Keldysh Green's technique is used to calculate the current-voltage…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 David M. -T. Kuo , P. W. Li

The characteristics of heat flow in a coupled magnetic system are studied. The coupled system is composed of a gapped chain and a gapless chain. The system size is assumed to be quite small so that the mean free path is comparable to it.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Keiji Saito

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

We investigate a system of three tunnel-coupled semiconductor quantum dots in a triangular geometry, one of which is connected to a metallic lead, in the regime where each dot is essentially singly occupied. Both ferro- and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-22 Andrew K. Mitchell , Thomas F. Jarrold , David E. Logan

We study the thermopower of a quantum dot weakly coupled to two reservoirs by tunnel junctions. At low temperatures the transport through the dot is suppressed by charging effects (Coulomb blockade). As a result the thermopower shows an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Turek , K. A. Matveev

We investigate the rectification and negative differential effects of full-counting statistics of conjugate thermal spin transport in a spin Seebeck engine. The engine is made by an electron/magnon interface diode driven by a temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 Gaomin Tang , Xiaobin Chen , Jie Ren , Jian Wang

Quantum thermodynamics is aimed at grasping thermodynamic laws as they apply to thermal machines operating in the deep quantum regime, a regime in which coherences and entanglement are expected to matter. Despite substantial progress,…

We study the Coulomb blockade of tunneling through a double quantum dot. The temperature dependence of the linear conductance is strongly affected by the inter-dot tunneling. As the tunneling grows, a crossover from temperature-independent…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 K. A. Matveev , L. I. Glazman , H. U. Baranger