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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

Owing to their sensitivity to temperature fluctuations, normal metal-insulator-superconductor (NIS) junctions are leveraged in various thermal devices. This study illustrates that two NISIN reservoirs can achieve a measurable negative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 M. Pioldi , G. De Simoni , A. Braggio , F. Giazotto

We propose a thermal transistor based on a three-terminal normal-superconductor (NS) junction with superconductor terminal acting as the base. The emergence of heat amplification is due to the negative differential thermal conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 Gaomin Tang , Jiebin Peng , Jian-Sheng Wang

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

Macroscopic quantum phase coherence has one of its pivotal expressions in the Josephson effect [1], which manifests itself both in charge [2] and energy transport [3-5]. The ability to master the amount of heat transferred through two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-10 Antonio Fornieri , Christophe Blanc , Riccardo Bosisio , Sophie D'Ambrosio , Francesco Giazotto

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 present a groundbreaking demonstration of thermal modulation in a field-effect-controllable semiconductor-superconductor hybrid structure, wherein the heating mechanism is exclusively radiative. The architecture comprises two reservoirs…

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

We investigate thermal transport in a two segment classical Heisenberg spin chain with nearest neighbor interaction and in presence of external magnetic field using computer simulation. The system is thermally driven by heat baths attached…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-11-11 Debarshee Bagchi

In this work, the near-field radiative heat transfer (NFRHT) between two Weyl semimetal (WSM) nanoparticles (NPs) is investigated. The numerical results show that negative differential thermal conductance (NDTC) effect can be obtained in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Yasong Sun , Yang Hu , Kezhang Shi , Jihong Zhang , Dudong Feng , Xiaohu Wu

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

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

Negative differential conductivity (NDC) is a widely exploited effect in modern electronic components. Here, a proof-of-principle is given for the observation of NDC in a quantum transport device for neutral atoms employing a multi-mode…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-08-24 Ralf Labouvie , Bodhaditya Santra , Simon Heun , Sandro Wimberger , Herwig Ott

Quantum heat transfer is analyzed in nonequilibrium two-qubits systems by applying the nonequilibrium polaron-transformed Redfield equation combined with full counting statistics. Steady state heat currents with weak and strong qubit-bath…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Huan Liu , Chen Wang , Lu-Qing Wang , Jie Ren

The presence of interfaces in semiconductor devices substantially hinders thermal transport, contributing disproportionately to the overall thermal resistance. However, approaches to enhance interfacial thermal transport remain scarce…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Yizhe Liu , Bo Sun

Two superconductors coupled by a weak link support an equilibrium Josephson electrical current which depends on the phase difference $\varphi$ between the superconducting condensates [1]. Yet, when a temperature gradient is imposed across…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-25 Antonio Fornieri , Giuliano Timossi , Pauli Virtanen , Paolo Solinas , Francesco Giazotto

We theoretically investigate heat transport in hybrid normal metal-superconductor (NS) nanojunctions focusing on the effect of thermal rectification. We show that the heat diode effect in the junction strongly depends on the transmissivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-17 F. Giazotto , F. S. Bergeret

Negative differential conductance (NDC) manifests as a significant characteristic of various underlying physics and transport processes in hybrid superconducting devices. In this work, we report the observation of gate-tunable NDC outside…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Mingli Liu , Dong Pan , Tian Le , Jiangbo He , Zhongmou Jia , Shang Zhu , Guang Yang , Zhaozheng Lyu , Guangtong Liu , Jie Shen , Jianhua Zhao , Li Lu , Fanming Qu

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 theoretically study the behavior of the critical current of a thermally-biased tunnel Josephson junction with a particular design, in which the electrodes of the junction are enclosed in two different superconducting loops pierced by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-07-20 Claudio Guarcello , Roberta Citro , Francesco Giazotto , Alessandro Braggio
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