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Based on the nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF), we develop a quantum nonlinear theory to study time-dependent ac transport properties in the low frequency and nonlinear bias voltage regimes. By expanding NEGF in terms of time to the…

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Understanding heat transfer across solid-liquid interfaces is central to thermal management and energy technologies, yet whether the interfacial thermal conductance (ITC) depends on the timescale of heating remains unclear. Here we use…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-25 Tao Chen , Puqing Jiang

Quantum thermal transport in two-quantum-dot system with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DM interaction) has been studied. The sign of thermal rectification can be controlled through changing the energy splitting or the DM interaction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-14 T Chen , X. B. Wang

We study thermoelectric phenomena in a system consisting of strongly correlated quantum dot coupled to external leads in the Kondo regime. We calculate linear and nonlinear electrical and thermal conductance and thermopower of the quantum…

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We report on nonlinear cotunneling spectroscopy of a carbon nanotube quantum dot coupled to Nb superconducting contacts. Our measurements show rich subgap features in the stability diagram which become more pronounced as the temperature is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 S. Ratz , A. Donarini , D. Steininger , T. Geiger , A. Kumar , A. K. Hüttel , Ch. Strunk , M. Grifoni

Thermal management at silicon-diamond interface is critical for advancing high-performance electronic and optoelectronic devices. In this study, we calculate the interfacial thermal conductance between silicon and diamond using machine…

We analyze the behavior of the thermal conductivity in quasi-two dimensional superconductors with line nodes. Motivated by measurements of the anisotropy between the interplane and intraplane thermal transport in CeIrIn_5 we show that a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-29 I. Vekhter , A. Vorontsov

A nanowire with its two ends fixed at two different temperatures by external baths is the simplest example of a fermionic system with a temperature inhomogeneity, and could be an easy platform to study thermodynamic and transport properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-07 Yuan Gao , K. A. Muttalib

The mechanism of heat transfer and the contribution of electron-phonon coupling to thermal conductance of a metal-semiconductor interface remains unclear in the present literature. We report ab initio simulations of a technologically…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-04-07 Sridhar Sadasivam , Umesh V. Waghmare , Timothy S. Fisher

We introduce a numerically exact and computationally feasible nonlinear-response theory developed for lossy superconducting quantum circuits based on a framework of quantum dissipation in a minimally extended state space. Starting from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-27 V. Vadimov , M. Xu , J. T. Stockburger , J. Ankerhold , M. Möttönen

Linear temperature dependence of transport coefficients in metals is often ascribed to non-Fermi-liquid physics. Here we demonstrate the $T$-linear behavior of nonlocal conductivity in a clean 2D electron fluid, where carrier collisions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 Serhii Kryhin , Qiantan Hong , Leonid Levitov

Non-equilibrium transport and phonon branch-resolved size effects in single-layer graphene materials are studied under a multi-temperature kinetic model, which is developed for capturing the branch-dependent electron-phonon coupling.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Chuang Zhang , Houssem Rezgui , Meng Lian , Hong Liang

In this paper, thermal transport in bond-disordered harmonic chains is revisited in detail using a nonequilibrium Green's function formalism. For strong bond disorder, thermal conductivity is independent of the system size. However, kinetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-25 Kiminori Hattori , Shohei Kumatoriya

Thermal transport in low-dimensional semiconductors is crucial for advancing thermal management in nanoelectronics, quantum devices, and thermoelectric devices. Recent molecular dynamics (MD) studies have identified a nonmonotonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Lokanath Patra , Mayur Pratap Singh , Satish Kumar

We proposed a new way, adding intertube atoms, to enhance interfacial thermal conductance (ITC) between SiC-carbon nanotube (CNT) array structure. Non-equilibrium molecular dynamics method was used to study the ITC. The results show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-10 Chengcheng Deng , Xiaoxiang Yu , Xiaoming Huang , Nuo Yang

Since the the first studies of thermodynamics, heat transport has been a crucial element for the understanding of any thermal system. Quantum mechanics has introduced new appealing ingredients for the manipulation of heat currents, such as…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-03-19 Giuliano Timossi , Antonio Fornieri , Federico Paolucci , Claudio Puglia , Francesco Giazotto

We develop a theory of the conductance of a quantum dot connected to two leads by single-mode quantum point contacts. If the contacts are in the regime of perfect transmission, the conductance shows no Coulomb blockade oscillations as a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Furusaki , K. A. Matveev

We propose a self-validating scheme to calculate the unbiased responses of quantum many-body systems to external fields of arbibraty strength at any temperature. By switching on a specified field to a thermal pure quantum state of an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-30 Hiroyuki Endo , Chisa Hotta , Akira Shimizu

The symmetry of the interparticle interaction potential (IIP) plays a critical role in determining the thermodynamic and transport properties of solids. This study investigates the isolated effect of IIP asymmetry on thermalization.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-14 Weicheng Fu , Sihan Feng , Yong Zhang , Hong Zhao

We investigate the nonequilibrium transport properties of a double quantum dot system connected in parallel to two leads, including intradot electron-electron interaction. In the absence of interactions the system supports a bound state in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-04 Miguel A. Sierra , M. Saiz-Bretin , F. Dominguez-Adame , David Sanchez