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We discuss how phase coherence manifests in the heat transport through superconducting single and multichannel Josephson junctions in time dependent situations. We consider the heat current driven through the junction by a temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-02 P. Virtanen , F. Giazotto

The flow of fluid confined between a heated rotating cylinder and a cooled stationary cylinder is a canonical experiment for the study of heat transfer in engineering. The theoretical treatment of this system is greatly simplified if the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-09-15 Jose M. Lopez , Francisco Marques , Marc Avila

Calculations of the heat flux carried by plasma to the wall of a magnetic fusion machine often assume that power flows only along the field lines, but this cannot be true in general. Instead, we treat the plasma as an anisotropic non-linear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-02-07 M Kovari

Thermoelectric effects, such as the generation of a particle current by a temperature gradient, have their origin in a reversible coupling between heat and particle flows. These effects are fundamental probes for materials and have…

We theoretically study thermal transport in an electronic interferometer comprising a parallel circuit of two quantum dots, each of which has a tunable single electronic state which are connected to two leads at different temperature.As a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sam Young Cho , Ross H. McKenzie

When an electrically charged system is subjected to the action of an electromagnetic field, it responds by generating an electrical current. In the case of a multicomponent plasma other effects, the so called cross effects, influence the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 L. S. Garcia-Colin , A. L. Garcia-Perciante , A. Sandoval-Villalbazo

We calculate the rate of energy flow between two macroscopic bodies, each in thermodynamic equilibrium at a different temperature, and joined by a weak mechanical link. The macroscopic solids are assumed to be electrically insulating, so…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kelly R. Patton , Michael R. Geller

We present an in-depth analysis of the sometimes understated role of the principle of energy conservation in linear irreversible thermodynamics. Our case study is that of a thermoelectric generator (TEG), which is a heat engine of choice in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-09-02 Yann Apertet , Henni Ouerdane , Christophe Goupil , Philippe Lecoeur

Motivated by recent experiments (Subero et. al. Nature Comm. $\bf{14}$, 7924 (2023)) we analyze photonic heat transport through a Josephson junction in a dissipative environment. For this purpose we derive general expressions for the heat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 A. Levy Yeyati , D. Subero , J. Pekola , R. Sánchez

The concept of "thermal inductance" expands the options of thermal circuit design. However, the inductive component is the only missing components in thermal circuits, unlike their electromagnetic counterparts. Herein, we report an…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Kenjiro Okawa , Yasutaka Amagai , Hiroyuki Fujiki , Nobu-Hisa Kaneko

We introduce a new class of mesoscopic heat engines consisting of a tunnel junction coupled to a linear thermal bath. Work is produced by transporting electrons up against a voltage bias like in ordinary thermoelectrics but heat is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-01 Tomi Ruokola , Teemu Ojanen

We propose theoretically a thermal switch operating by the magnetic-flux controlled diffraction of phase-coherent heat currents in a thermally biased Josephson junction based on a two-dimensional topological insulator. For short junctions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-02 Björn Sothmann , Francesco Giazotto , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

We report and explain a convective phenomenon observed in molecular dynamics simulations that cannot be classified either as a hydrodynamics instability nor as a macroscopically forced convection. Two complementary arguments show that the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Jorge Ibsen , Rodrigo Soto , Patricio Cordero

It is shown that a heat energy can be transformed in an electric energy of direct current by the use of an inhomogeneous superconducting ring. This trasformation is possible both at an iterative change of temperature and at an unaltered…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Nikulov

In the fabrication of optical fibres, the viscosity of the glass varies dramatically with temperature so that heat transfer plays an important role in the deformation of the fibre geometry. Surprisingly, for quasi-steady drawing, with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-19 Eunice B. Yuwono , Yvonne M. Stokes , Hayden Tronnolone , Jonathan J. Wylie

We extend and reconcile recent work on turbulence and particle heating in advection-dominated accretion flows. For approximately equipartition magnetic fields, the turbulence primarily heats the electrons. For weaker magnetic fields, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Eliot Quataert , Andrei Gruzinov

The bottleneck in modern thermoelectric power generation and cooling is the low energy conversion efficiency of thermoelectric materials. The detrimental effects of lattice phonons on performance can be mitigated, but achieving a high…

We analytically study heat conduction in a chain with interparticle interaction V(x)=lambda[1-cos(x)] and harmonic on-site potential. We start with each site of the system connected to a Langevin heat bath, and investigate the case of small…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Emmanuel Pereira , Ricardo Falcao

The emerging field of phase-coherent caloritronics (from the Latin word "calor", i.e., heat) is based on the possibility to control heat currents using the phase difference of the superconducting order parameter. The goal is to design and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-09 Antonio Fornieri , Francesco Giazotto

The thermal transport across metal-insulator interface can be characterized by electron-phonon interaction through which an electron lead is coupled to a phonon lead if phonon-phonon coupling at the interface is very weak. We investigate…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-17 Lifa Zhang , Jing-Tao Lü , Jian-Sheng Wang , Baowen Li