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Thermal rectification and negative differential thermal resistance are two important features that have direct technological relevance. In this paper, we study the classical one dimensional Heisenberg model, thermally driven by heat baths…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-23 Debarshee Bagchi

We study thermal transport in anisotropic Heisenberg spin chains using the quantum master equation. It is found that thermal rectification changes sign when the external homogeneous magnetic field is varied. This reversal also occurs when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-16 Lifa Zhang , Yonghong Yan , Chang-Qin Wu , Jian-Sheng Wang , Baowen Li

We investigate the heat flow transport properties of a parallel-coupled double quantum-dot system connected to two reservoirs with a temperature bias in the Coulomb blockade regime. We demonstrate that the effects of thermal rectification…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Yanchao Zhang , Shanhe Su

The negative differential thermal conductance (NDTC) provides the key mechanism for realizing thermal transistors. This exotic effect has been the object of an extensive theoretical investigation, but the implementation is still limited to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-17 Shobhit Saheb Dey , Giuliano Timossi , Luigi Amico , Giampiero Marchegiani

It has recently been shown that in one-dimensional hard-point gases, there is a mechanism that induces negative differential thermal resistance (NDTR) between heat baths. We examine this mechanism in more general higher dimensional fluids…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-15 Rongxiang Luo , Juncheng Guo , Jun Zhang , Hanxin Yang

Negative differential thermal conductance (NDTC), a hallmark of nonlinear quantum thermal transport, plays a critical role in the design of quantum thermal devices such as thermal diodes and transistors. The Lindblad dynamics predicts that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Zi-chen Zhang , Chang-shui Yu

Negative differential resistance in electronic conduction has been extensively studied, but it is not the case for its thermal counterpart, namely, negative differential thermal resistance (NDTR). We present a classical Landauer formula in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-01-22 Dahai He , Sahin Buyukdagli , Bambi Hu

This work aims to understand how quantum mechanics affects heat transport at low temperatures. In the classical setting, by considering a simple paradigmatic model, our simulations reveal the emergence of Negative Differential Thermal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-17 Zhixing Zou , Jiangbin Gong , Jiao Wang , Giulio Casati , Giuliano Benenti

We investigate the thermal transport properties of a temperature-biased Josephson tunnel junction composed of two different superconductors. We show that this simple system can provide a large negative differential thermal conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-21 Antonio Fornieri , Giuliano Timossi , Riccardo Bosisio , Paolo Solinas , Francesco Giazotto

We study thermal transport in a classical one-dimensional Heisenberg model employing a discrete time odd even precessional update scheme. This dynamics equilibrates a spin chain for any arbitrary temperature and finite value of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-20 Debarshee Bagchi , P. K. Mohanty

We study heat conduction through one-dimensional homogeneous lattices in the presence of the nonlinear on-site potentials containing the bounded and unbounded parts, and the harmonic interaction potential. We observe the occurrence of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-08-16 Bao-quan Ai , Wei-rong Zhong , Bambi Hu

When coupling thermal baths at different temperatures, negative differential thermal conductivity is typically attributed to nonlinear interactions in the connecting medium. In this work, we demonstrate that such an effect can arise purely…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-13 Simon Krekels , Christian Maes , Ion Santra , Ruoxun Zhai

We study thermal transport in the one dimensional classical Heisenberg model driven by boundary heat baths in presence of a local time varying magnetic field that acts at one end of the system. The system is studied numerically using an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Debarshee Bagchi

We investigate how gravity influences negative differential thermal resistance (NDTR) in fluids modeled by multiparticle collision dynamics. In the integrable case, we derive the heat flux formula for the system exhibiting the NDTR effect,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-15 Qiyuan Zhang , Juncheng Guo , Juchang Zou , Rongxiang Luo

We show that in a finite one-dimensional (1D) system with diffusive thermal transport described by the Fourier's law, negative differential thermal conductance (NDTC) cannot occur when the temperature at one end is fixed. We demonstrate…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-03 Jiuning Hu , Yong P. Chen

We investigate heat transport in a spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain, coupled locally to independent thermal baths of different temperature. The analysis is carried out within the framework of the theory of open systems by means of appropriate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hannu Wichterich , Markus J. Henrich , Heinz-Peter Breuer , Jochen Gemmer , Mathias Michel

Negative differential thermal resistance (NDTR) can be generated for any one-dimensional heat flow with a temperature-dependent thermal conductivity. In a system-independent scaling analysis, the general condition for the occurrence of NDTR…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Ho-Kei Chan , Dahai He , Bambi Hu

This work is devoted to the investigation of nontrivial transport properties in many-body quantum systems. Precisely, we study transport in the steady state of spin-1/2 Heisenberg XXZ chains, driven out of equilibrium by two magnetic baths…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-20 Alberto L. de Paula , Emmanuel Pereira , Raphael C. Drumond , M. C. O. Aguiar

Using nonequilibrium molecular-dynamics simulations, we study the temperature dependence of the negative differential thermal resistance that appears in two-segment Frenkel-Kontorova lattices. We apply the theoretical method based on…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-05-26 Wei-Rong Zhong , Ping Yang , Bao-Quan Ai , Zhi-Gang Shao , Bambi Hu

The understanding of the underlying dynamical mechanisms which determine the macroscopic laws of heat conduction is a long standing task of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. A better understanding of the mechanism of heat conduction…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-09-08 Giulio Casati , Carlos Mejia-Monasterio
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