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The Anderson localization of thermal phonons has been shown only in few nano-structures with strong random disorder by the exponential decay of transmission to zero and a thermal conductivity maximum when increasing system length. In this…

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We study thermal transport through Pt nanowires that bridge planar contacts as a function of wire length and vibrational frequency of the contacts. When phonons in the contacts have lower average frequencies than those in the wires thermal…

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The thermal conductivity of a freestanding single-crystal silicon membrane may be reduced significantly by attaching nanoscale pillars on one or both surfaces. Atomic resonances of the nanopillars locally and intrinsically couple with the…

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Commonly, thermal transport properties of one-dimensional systems are found to be anomalous. Here, we perform a numerical and theoretical study of the $\beta$-FPUT chain, considered a prototypical model for one-dimensional anharmonic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-15 Giovanni Dematteis , Lamberto Rondoni , Davide Proment , Francesco De Vita , Miguel Onorato

Thermal transport acts as a powerful tool for studying the excitations and physical properties of insulators, where a charge gap suppresses electronic conduction. Recently, the thermal Hall effect has been observed across various materials,…

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The design of new applications, especially those based on heterogeneous integration, must rely on detailed knowledge of material properties, such as thermal conductivity (TC). To this end, multiple methods have been developed to study TC as…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-18 Alexander J. Gabourie , Zheyong Fan , Tapio Ala-Nissila , Eric Pop

We report a numerical investigation on the heat transfer through one dimensional arrays of metallic nanoparticles closely spaced in a host material. Our simulations show that the multipolar interactions play a crucial role in the heat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Philippe Ben-Abdallah , Karl Joulain , Jérémie Drevillon , Clément Le Goff

We study heat current autocorrelation function and thermal conductivity in core-shell nanowires by using molecular dynamics simulations. Interestingly, a remarkable oscillation effect in heat current autocorrelation function is observed in…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-30 Jie Chen , Gang Zhang , Baowen Li

Low thermal conductivity is favorable for preserving the temperature gradient between the two ends of a thermoelectric material in order to ensure continuous electron current generation. In high-performance thermoelectric materials, there…

Understanding thermal transport in silicon nanostructures is crucial for effective thermal management in semiconductor devices. In such nanostructures, boundary scattering can significantly reduce thermal conductivity. Diffusive boundary…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-28 Michimasa Morita , Junichiro Shiomi

We consider contribution to the phonon scattering, in the temperature range of 1K, by the dislocation kinks pinned in the random stress fields in a crystal. The effect of electron-kink scattering on the thermal transport in the normal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-01 J. A. M. van Ostaay , S. I. Mukhin

It is well known that the contribution of harmonic phonons to the thermal conductivity of 1D systems diverges with the harmonic chain length $L$ (explicitly, increases with $L$ as a power-law with a positive power). Furthermore, within…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-11-14 Ariel Amir , Yuval Oreg , Yoseph Imry

Thermal transport properties of amorphous carbon has attracted increasing attention due to its extreme thermal properties: It has been reported to have among the highest thermal conductivity for bulk amorphous solids up to $\sim$ 37…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-05-14 Jaeyun Moon , Zhiting Tian

The divergence of the thermal conductivity in the thermodynamic limit is thoroughly investigated. The divergence law is consistently determined with two different numerical approaches based on equilibrium and non-equilibrium simulations. A…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Stefano Lepri , Roberto Livi , Antonio Politi

In this paper, we have studied the effect of short branches on the thermal conductivity of a polyethylene (PE) chain. With a reverse non-equilibrium molecular dynamics method applied, thermal conductivities of the pristine PE chain and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-31 Danchen Luo , Congliang Huang , Zun Huang

Two-dimensional materials have unusual phonon structures due to the presence of flexural (out-of-plane) modes. Although molecular dynamics simulations have been extensively used to study heat transport in such materials, conventional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-27 Zheyong Fan , Luiz Felipe C. Pereira , Petri Hirvonen , Mikko M. Ervasti , Ken R. Elder , Davide Donadio , Tapio Ala-Nissila , Ari Harju

We investigate thermalization in a tight-binding chain with an on-site defect subject to local dephasing noise implemented as random phase kicks. For a single linear defect of strength $\epsilon$, we obtain an exact analytical description…

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We study the thermal properties of a pinned disordered harmonic chain weakly perturbed by a noise and an anharmonic potential. The noise is controlled by a parameter $\lambda \rightarrow 0$, and the anharmonicity by a parameter $\lambda'…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-10-08 Cédric Bernardin , François Huveneers

Flows are omnipresent and govern the dynamics of plasma. Solar tornadoes are a class of apparently rotating prominences, that might be formed by thermal instability. In spectroscopic studies on thermal instability background flow is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-12 Joris Hermans , Rony Keppens

We present a study of the phononic thermal conductivity of isotopically disordered carbon nanotubes. In particular, the behavior of the thermal conductivity as a function of the system length is investigated, using Green's function…

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