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Equilibrium molecular dynamics (EMD) simulations through Green-Kubo formula (GKF) have been widely used in the study of thermal conductivity of various materials. However, there exist controversial simulation results which have huge…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jie Chen , Gang Zhang , Baowen Li

We study phonon transport in junctions of two harmonic reservoirs coupled together by a spring. The exact steady-state heat currents and thermal conductance are calculated using nonequilibrium Green's functions. We find that the heat…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-13 Eduardo C. Cuansing , Juan Rafael K. Bautista

We consider heat conduction across an ordered oscillator chain with harmonic interparticle interactions and also onsite harmonic potentials. The onsite spring constant is the same for all sites excepting the boundary sites. The chain is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dibyendu Roy , Abhishek Dhar

We study the transport of heat along a chain of particles interacting through a harmonic potential and subject to heat reservoirs at its ends. Each particle has two degrees of freedom and is subject to a stochastic noise that produces…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 Gabriel T. Landi , Mario J. de Oliveira

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 present a new analytic expression for the heat current through a general harmonic network coupled with Ohmic reservoirs. We use a new method that enables us to express the stationary state of the network in terms of the eigenvectors and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Nahuel Freitas , Juan Pablo Paz

We investigate the mechanism of heat conduction in ordered and disordered harmonic onedimensional chains within the quantum mechanical Langevin method. In the case of the disordered chains we find indications for normal heat conduction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-07-18 Christopher Gaul , Helmut Büttner

We consider one-dimensional systems of all-to-all harmonically coupled particles with arbitrary masses, subject to two Langevin thermal baths. The couplings correspond to the mean-field limit of long-range interactions. Additionally, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-08 L. Defaveri , C. Olivares , C. Anteneodo

We consider heat transport in one-dimensional harmonic chains attached at its ends to Langevin heat baths. The harmonic chain has mass impurities where the separation $d$ between any two successive impurities is randomly distributed…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-11-05 I. F. Herrera-Gonzalez , J. A. Mendez-Bermudez

Using stochastic thermodynamics, the properties of interacting linear chains subject to periodic drivings are investigated. The systems are described by Fokker-Planck-Kramers equation and exact (explicit) solutions are obtained for periodic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-05 Bruno A. N. Akasaki , M. J. de Oliveira , Carlos E. Fiore

We study the statistics of heat transferred in a given time interval $t_M$, through a finite harmonic chain, called the center $(C)$, which is connected with two heat baths, the left $(L)$ and the right $(R)$, that are maintained at two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-05-31 Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Baowen Li , Jian-Sheng Wang

We consider heat transfer between two thermal reservoirs mediated by a quantum system using the generalized quantum Langevin equation. The thermal reservoirs are treated as ensembles of oscillators within the framework of the Drude-Ullersma…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 George Y. Panasyuk , George A. Levin , Kirk L. Yerkes

We consider chains of $N$ harmonic oscillators in two dimensions coupled to two Langevin heat reservoirs at different temperatures - a classical model for heat conduction introduced by Lebowitz, Lieb, and Rieder \cite{RLL67}. We extend our…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Simon Becker , Angeliki Menegaki , Jiming Yu

Problems of heat transport are ubiquitous to various technologies such as power generation, cooling, electronics, and thermoelectrics. In this paper we advocate for the application of the quantum self-consistent reservoir method, which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Roya Moghaddasi Fereidani , Dvira Segal

We consider finite size effects on heat transfer between thermal reservoirs mediated by a quantum system, where the number of modes in each reservoir is finite. Our approach is based on the generalized quantum Langevin equation and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 George Y. Panasyuk , Kirk L. Yerkes

We investigate thermal conduction in arrays of long-range interacting rotors and Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) oscillators coupled to two reservoirs at different temperatures. The strength of the interaction between two lattice sites decays as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-14 Stefano Iubini , Pierfrancesco Di Cintio , Stefano Lepri , Roberto Livi , Lapo Casetti

We extend the work of Kannan et al. and derive the cumulant generating function for the alternating mass harmonic chain consisting of N particles and driven by heat reservoirs. The main result is a closed expression for the cumulant…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-07 Hans C. Fogedby

In this work we study the energy transport in a one-dimensional system composed of two dissimilar Frenkel-Kontorova lattices connected by a time-modulated coupling and in contact with two heat reservoirs operating at different temperature…

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