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The calculation of thermal conductivity in insulating solids at temperatures below the Debye temperature is problematic, due to the breakdown of classical and semi-classical approaches. In this work, we present a fully quantum methodology…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-19 Vladislav Efremkin , Stefano Mossa , Jean-Louis Barrat , Markus Holzmann

Ab initio Green-Kubo (aiGK) simulations of heat transport in solids allow for assessing lattice thermal conductivity in anharmonic or complex materials from first principles. In this work, we present a detailed account of their practical…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-14 Florian Knoop , Matthias Scheffler , Christian Carbogno

The evaluation of transport coefficients in extended systems, such as thermal conductivity or shear viscosity, is known to require impractically long simulations, thus calling for a paradigm shift that would allow to deploy state-of-the-art…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-30 Loris Ercole , Aris Marcolongo , Stefano Baroni

Starting from microscopic mechanics, we derive thermodynamic relations for heat conducting nonequilibrium steady states. The extended Clausius relation enables one to experimentally determine nonequilibrium entropy to the second order in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Teruhisa S. Komatsu , Naoko Nakagawa , Shin-ichi Sasa , Hal Tasaki

We present generalized Green-Kubo expressions for thermal transport coefficients $\mu$ in non-conservative fluid-type systems, of the generic form, $\mu$ $= \mu_\infty$ $+\int^\infty_0 dt V^{-1} \av{I_\epsilon \exp(t {\cal L}) I}_0$ where…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. H. Ernst , R. Brito

We obtain an exact Green-Kubo type linear response result for the heat current in an open system. The result is derived for classical Hamiltonian systems coupled to heat baths. Both lattice models and fluid systems are studied and several…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anupam Kundu , Abhishek Dhar , Onuttom Narayan

In this paper we describe a spatial decomposition of the thermal conductivity, what we name "site-projected thermal conductivity", a gauge of the thermal conduction activity at each site. The method is based on the Green-Kubo formula and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-16 C. Ugwumadu , A. Gautam , Y. G. Lee , D. A. Drabold

The thermal conductivity of classical multi-component fluids is seemingly affected by the intrinsic arbitrariness in the definition of the atomic energies and it is ill-conditioned numerically, when evaluated from the Green-Kubo theory of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-30 Riccardo Bertossa , Federico Grasselli , Loris Ercole , Stefano Baroni

The standard equilibrium Green-Kubo and nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (MD) methods for computing thermal transport coefficients in solids typically require relatively long simulation times and large system sizes. To this end, we revisit…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-05 Zheyong Fan , Haikuan Dong , Ari Harju , Tapio Ala-Nissila

In this paper, we study exactly the thermal conductance for a low dimensional system represented by two coupled massive Brownian particles, both directly and via a Green-Kubo expression. Both approaches give exactly the same result. We also…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-01 W. A. M. Morgado , D. O. Soares-Pinto

We present an ab initio calculation of the DC conductivity of amorphous silicon and hydrogenated amorphous silicon. The Kubo-Greenwood formula is used to obtain the DC conductivity, by thermal averaging over extended dynamical simulation.…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 T. A. Abtew , M. Zhang , D. A. Drabold

The thermal resistance associated with the interface between a solid and a liquid is analyzed from an atomistic point of view. Partial evaluation of the associated Green-Kubo integral elucidates the various factors governing heat transport…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-26 Nicolas G. Hadjiconstantinou , Mathew M. Swisher

With the rapid advance of high-performance computing and electronic technologies, understanding thermal conductivity in materials has become increasingly important. This study presents a novel method: the Site-projected Thermal Conductivity…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-22 A. Gautam , Y. G. Lee , C. Ugwumadu , K. Nepal , S. Nakhmanson , D. A. Drabold

Recent progress in understanding thermal transport in complex crystals has highlighted the prominent role of heat conduction mediated by interband tunneling processes, which emerge between overlapping phonon bands (i.e. with energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-17 Giovanni Caldarelli , Michele Simoncelli , Nicola Marzari , Francesco Mauri , Lara Benfatto

The heat flux autocorrelation functions of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with different radius and lengths is calculated using equilibrium molecular dynamics. The thermal conductance of CNTs is also calculated using the Green-Kubo relation from…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Zhenhua Yao , Jian-Sheng Wang , Baowen Li , Gui-Rong Liu

We propose an efficient scheme, which combines density functional theory (DFT) with deep potentials (DP), to systematically study the convergence issues of the computed electronic thermal conductivity of warm dense Al (2.7 g/cm$^3$,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Qianrui Liu , Junyi Li , Mohan Chen

Given the unique optical properties of LiF, it is often used as an observation window in high-temperature and pressure experiments; and, hence, estimates of its transmission properties are necessary to interpret observations. Since direct…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-27 R. E. Jones , D. K. Ward

We introduce a $d$-dimensional system of charged harmonic oscillators in a magnetic field perturbed by a stochastic dynamics which conserves energy but not momentum. We study the thermal conductivity via the Green-Kubo formula, focusing on…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-08 Keiji Saito , Makiko Sasada

Quantum simulation methods based on density-functional theory are currently deemed unfit to cope with atomic heat transport within the Green-Kubo formalism, because quantum-mechanical energy densities and currents are inherently ill-defined…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-20 Aris Marcolongo , Paolo Umari , Stefano Baroni

It is known that the ionic conductivity can be obtained by using the diffusion constant and the Einstein relation. We derive it here by extracting it from the steady electric current which we calculate in three ways, using statistics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-26 Yong-Jun Zhang