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Thermal transport is less appreciated in probing quantum materials in comparison to electrical transport. This article aims to show the pivotal role that thermal transport may play in understanding quantum materials: the longitudinal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-13 Mingda Li , Gang Chen

We calculate the finite temperature and non-equilibrium electric current through systems described generically at low energy by a singlet and \emph{two} spin doublets for $N$ and $N \pm 1$ electrons respectively, coupled asymmetrically to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-08-24 P. Roura-Bas , L. Tosi , A. A. Aligia , K. Hallberg

We study the nonlinear thermoelectric cooling performance of a quantum spin Hall system. The setup consists of a nanomagnet contacting a Kramers' pair of helical edge states, resulting in a transmission probability with a rich structure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-04 Fatemeh Hajiloo , Pablo Terrén Alonso , Nastaran Dashti , Liliana Arrachea , Janine Splettstoesser

We investigate thermoelectric transport through a SU(N) quantum impurity in the Kondo regime. The strong coupling fixed point theory is described by the local Fermi-liquid paradigm. Using Keldysh technique we analyse the electric current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-07 D. B. Karki , M. N. Kiselev

Understanding heat transport in low-dimensional and nano-architectured materials remains a central challenge in nonequilibrium statistical physics due to persistent deviations from Fourier's law. These deviations are driven by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 R. A. C. Correa , K. N. M. Sharma , P. Lolur , J. van Velzen

We study nonlinear transport effects on the maximum efficiency and power for both inelastic and elastic thermoelectric generators. The former refers to phonon-assisted hopping in double quantum-dots, while the latter is represented by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-21 Jian-Hua Jiang , Yoseph Imry

In a previous work, we predicted that a thermally biased tunnel junction between two different superconductors can display a thermoelectric effect of nonlinear nature in the temperature gradient, under proper conditions. In this work we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 G. Marchegiani , A. Braggio , F. Giazotto

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 explore nonequilibrium quantum heat transport in nonlinear bosonic systems in the presence of a non-Kerr-type interaction governed by hyper-parametric oscillation due to two-photon hopping between the two cavities. We estimate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 JungYun Han , Daniel Leykam , Dimitris G. Angelakis , Juzar Thingna

We investigate the heat conduction properties of molecular junctions comprising anharmonic interactions. We find that nonlinear interactions can lead to novel phenomena: it negative differential thermal conductance and heat rectification.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Dvira Segal

We review the recent progress in understanding the properties of spin-split superconductors under non-equilibrium conditions. Recent experiments and theories demonstrate a rich variety of transport phenomena occurring in devices based on…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-02-01 F. Sebastian Bergeret , Mikhail Silaev , Pauli Virtanen , Tero T. Heikkila

Nonlinear heat transfer can be exploited to reveal novel transport phenomena and thus enhance peo-ple's ability to manipulate heat flux at will. However, there hasn't been a mature discipline called nonlinear thermotics like its counterpart…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-10-04 Gaole Dai

Quantum dots are versatile systems for exploring quantum transport, electron correlations, and many-body phenomena such as the Kondo effect. While equilibrium properties are well understood through methods like the numerical renormalization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-06 Gustavo Diniz , Silvio Quintino , Vivian V. França

We consider a quantum Hall system with an antidot acting as an energy dependent scatterer. In the purely charge case, we find deviations from the Wiedemann-Franz law that take place in the nonlinear regime of transport. We also discuss…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rosa Lopez , Sun-Yong Hwang , David Sanchez

We present a general introduction to the non-zero temperature dynamic and transport properties of low-dimensional systems near a quantum phase transition. Basic results are reviewed in the context of experiments on the spin-ladder…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Subir Sachdev , Matthias Vojta

We find the charge and heat currents caused by a temperature difference applied to a superconducting point contact or to a quantum point contact between a superconducting and normal conductors. The results are formulated in terms of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 Sergey S. Pershoguba , Leonid I. Glazman

We present a theoretical study of radiative heat transport in nonlinear solid-state quantum circuits. We give a detailed account of heat rectification effects, i.e. the asymmetry of heat current with respect to a reversal of the thermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-28 Tomi Ruokola , Teemu Ojanen , Antti-Pekka Jauho

We have investigated the weakly non-linear quantum transport properties of a two-dimensional quantum conductor. We have developed a numerical scheme which is very general for this purpose. The nonlinear conductance is computed by explicitly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Wei-Dong Sheng , Jian Wang , Hong Guo

Superconducting interfaces have recently been demonstrated to contain a rich variety of effects that give rise to sizable thermoelectric responses and unexpected thermal properties, despite traditionally being considered poor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 L. Arrachea , A. Braggio , P. Burset , E. J. H. Lee , A. Levy Yeyati , R. Sánchez

Nonlinear transport through a quantum dot is studied in the limit of weak and strong intra-dot Coulomb interaction. For the latter regime the nonequilibrium self-consistent mean field equations for energies and spectral weights of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Sandalov , R. G. Nazmitdinov