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We study heat current and the full statistics of heat fluctuations in a capacitively-coupled double quantum dot system. This work is motivated by recent theoretical studies and experimental works on heat currents in quantum dot circuits. As…

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We describe a method for computing transport coefficients from the direct evaluation of large deviation function. This method is general, relying on only equilibrium fluctuations, and is statistically efficient, employing trajectory based…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-22 Chloe Ya Gao , David T. Limmer

We address the problem of heat transport in a chain of coupled quantum harmonic oscillators, exposed to the influences of local environments of various nature, stressing the effects that the specific nature of the environment has on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-16 F. Nicacio , A. Ferraro , A. Imparato , M. Paternostro , F. L. Semião

We propose a Langevin equation to describe the quantum Brownian motion of bounded particles based on a distinctive formulation concerning both the fluctuation and dissipation forces. The fluctuation force is similar to that employed in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-22 Mário J. de Oliveira

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

We investigate the macroscopic behavior of the disordered harmonic chain of oscillators, through energy diffusion. The Hamiltonian dynamics of the system is perturbed by a degenerate conservative noise. After rescaling space and time…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-10-23 Clément Erignoux , Marielle Simon

This paper investigates the dynamics of current and quantum transport factor in a bosonic system consisting of a central system interacting with two reservoirs at different temperatures. We derive a master equation describing the time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-06 Jayarshi Bhattacharya , Sunandan Gangopadhyay , Gautam Gangopadhyay

We consider a one-dimensional XX spin chain in a nonequilibrium setting with a Lindblad-type boundary driving. By calculating large deviation rate function in the thermodynamic limit, being a generalization of free energy to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-01-31 Marko Znidaric

We study the transmission coefficient of a plane wave through a 1D finite quasi-periodic system -- the Frenkel-Kontorova (FK) model -- embedding in an infinite uniform harmonic chain. By varying the mass of atoms in the infinite uniform…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Peiqing Tong , Baowen Li , Bambi Hu

An exact linear response expression is obtained for the heat current in a classical Hamiltonian system coupled to heat baths with time-dependent temperatures. The expression is equally valid at zero and finite frequencies. We present…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 Abhishek Dhar , Onuttom Narayan , Anupam Kundu , Keiji Saito

We investigate the possibility of characterizing the different thermalization pathways through a large-deviation approach. Specifically, we consider clean, disordered and quasi-periodic harmonic chains under energy and momentum-conserving…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-08-21 Stefano Lepri

Recent results on the stationary state Fluctuation Theorems for work and heat fluctuations of Langevin systems are presented. The relevance of finite time corrections in understanding experimental and simulation results is explained in the…

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We present a detailed derivation of Fourier's law in a class of stochastic energy exchange systems that naturally characterize two-dimensional mechanical systems of locally confined particles in interaction. The stochastic systems consist…

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We prove the Gallavotti-Cohen fluctuation theorem for a model of heat conduction through a chain of anharmonic oscillators coupled to two Hamiltonian reservoirs at different temperatures.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Luc Rey-Bellet , Lawrence E. Thomas

The fluctuations of the heat current in a quantum dot coupled to electron reservoirs are calculated at finite frequency, voltage and temperature using the nonequilibrium Green function technique. The non-symmetrized heat noise is expressed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 A. Crépieux

Large fluctuations have received considerable attention as they encode information on the fine-scale dynamics. Large deviation relations known as fluctuation theorems also capture crucial nonequilibrium thermodynamical properties. Here we…

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The harmonic map heat flow is a geometric flow well known to produce solutions whose gradient blows up in finite time. A popular model for investigating the blow-up is the heat flow for maps $\mathbb R^{d}\to S^{d}$, restricted to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-11 Paweł Biernat , Yukihiro Seki

We analyze the finite-time blow-up of solutions of the heat flow for $k$-corotational maps $\mathbb R^d\to S^d$. For each dimension $d>2+k(2+2\sqrt{2})$ we construct a countable family of blow-up solutions via a method of matched…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Paweł Biernat

Systems in which the heat flux depends on the direction of the flow are said to present thermal rectification. This effect has attracted much theoretical and experimental interest in recent years. However, in most theoretical models the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-14 Pedro H. Guimarães , Gabriel T. Landi , Mário J. de Oliveira

We generalize time-evolving matrix product operators method to nonequilibrium quantum transport problems. The nonequilibrium current is obtained via numerical differentiation of the generating functional which is represented as a tensor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-23 Ruofan Chen