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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 a one-dimensional harmonic crystal with conservative noise, in contact with two stochastic Langevin heat baths at different temperatures. The noise term consists of collisions between neighbouring oscillators that exchange their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-09-08 Stefano Lepri , Carlos Mejia-Monasterio , Antonio Politi

Understanding heat transport in one-dimensional systems remains a major challenge in theoretical physics, both from the quantum as well as from the classical point of view. In fact, steady states of one-dimensional systems are commonly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-02 Carlos Mejía-Monasterio , Antonio Politi , Lamberto Rondoni

The time-honored Allen-Feldman theory of heat transport in glasses is generally assumed to predict a finite value for the thermal conductivity, even if it neglects the anharmonic broadening of vibrational normal modes. We demonstrate that…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-07-19 Alfredo Fiorentino , Enrico Drigo , Stefano Baroni , Paolo Pegolo

For the model of a linearly driven quantum anharmonic oscillator, the role of damping is investigated. We compare the position of the stable points in phase space obtained from a classical analysis to the result of a quantum mechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-27 Lingzhen Guo , Michael Marthaler , Stephan André , Gerd Schön

We study anomalous transport in a one-dimensional system with two conserved quantities in presence of thermal baths. In this system we derive exact expressions of the temperature profile and the two point correlations in steady state as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-10 Priyanka , Aritra Kundu , Abhishek Dhar , Anupam Kundu

The study of quantum thermodynamics is key to the development of quantum thermal machines. In contrast to most of the previous proposals based on discrete strokes, here we consider a working substance that is permanently coupled to two or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Heather Leitch , Nicolò Piccione , Bruno Bellomo , Gabriele De Chiara

Atomic heating is a fundamental phenomenon governed by the thermal spike effect during energetic deposition. This work presented another insight into thermal spike using a coupled classical oscillator model instead of a typical heat…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 Jiajian Guan , Yue He , Bin Liao , Xu Zhang

We investigate the heat flow between different terminals in an interacting coherent conductor when inelastic scattering is present. We illustrate our theory with a two-terminal quantum dot setup. Two types of heat asymmetries are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-04 Javier Arguello-Luengo , David Sanchez , Rosa Lopez

We investigate the transport properties of an anharmonic oscillator, modeled by a single-site Bose-Hubbard model, coupled to two different thermal baths using the numerically exact thermofield based chain-mapping matrix product states…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-08-18 Tianqi Chen , Vinitha Balachandran , Chu Guo , Dario Poletti

With the objective to understand microscopic principles governing thermal energy flow in nanojunctions, we study phononic heat transport through metal-molecule-metal junctions using classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Considering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Jonathan J. Wang , Jie Gong , Alan J. H. McGaughey , Dvira Segal

The temperature-dependent phonons are a generalization of interatomic force constants varying in T, which as found widespread use in computing the thermal transport of materials. A formal justification for using this combination to access…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-31 Aloïs Castellano , J. P. Alvarinhas Batista , Olle Hellman , Matthieu J. Verstraete

We study heat conduction in quantum disordered harmonic chains connected to general heat reservoirs which are modeled as infinite collection of oscillators. Formal exact expressions for the thermal current are obtained and it is shown that,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Abhishek Dhar

We study the Hamiltonian system made of weakly coupled anharmonic oscillators arranged on a three dimensional lattice and subjected to a stochastic forcing mimicking heat baths of temperatures T_1 and T_2 on the hyperplanes at x_1=0 and N.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean Bricmont , Antti Kupiainen

Thermal conductance of single molecular junctions at room temperature has been measured recently using picowatt-resolution scanning probes. However, fully understanding thermal transport in a much wider temperature range is needed for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Gen Li , Bing-Zhong Hu , Nuo Yang , Jing-Tao Lü

Phonon heat transport in mesoscopic systems is investigated using methods analogous to the Landauer description of electrical conductance. A "universal heat conductance" expression that depends on the properties of the conducting pathway…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. E. Angelescu , M. C. Cross , M. L. Roukes

In this work, we perform a detailed study of heat transport in one dimensional long-ranged anharmonic oscillator systems, such as the long-ranged Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou model. For these systems, the long-ranged anharmonic potential decays…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-21 Debarshee Bagchi

We present a detailed study of photonic heat transport across a Josephson junction coupled to two arbitrary linear circuits having different temperatures. First, we consider the linear approximation, in which a nonlinear Josephson potential…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-09-11 George Thomas , Jukka P. Pekola , Dmitry S. Golubev

We investigate the problem of heat conduction across a molecular junction connecting two nanoparticles, both in vacuum and in a liquid environment, using classical molecular dynamics simulations. In vacuum, the well-known result of a length…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-04 Samy Merabia , Jean-Louis Barrat , Laurent J. Lewis

Using molecular dynamics simulations, we study supercritical fluids near the gas-liquid critical point under heat flow in two dimensions. We calculate the steady-state temperature and density profiles. The resultant thermal conductivity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Toshiyuki Hamanaka , Ryoichi Yamamoto , Akira Onuki