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Heat transfer between two surfaces separated by a nanometre gap is important for a number of applications ranging from spaced head disk systems, scanning thermal microscopy and thermal transport in aerogels. At these separation distances,…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-07 A. Alkurdi , C. Adessi , F. Tabatabaei , S. Li , K. Termentzidis , S. Merabia

Semi-crystalline polymers have been shown to have greatly increased thermal conductivity compared to amorphous bulk polymers due to effective heat conduction along the covalent bonds of the backbone. However, the mechanisms governing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Andrew B. Robbins , Austin J. Minnich

The ab initio model for heat propagation is the phonon transport equation, a Boltzmann-like kinetic equation. When two materials are put side by side, the heat that propagates from one material to the other experiences thermal boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Irene M Gamba , Qin Li , Anjali Nair

Thermal transport in crystals is influenced by chemistry, boundaries, and nanostructure. The anharmonic phonon band structure extracted from molecular-dynamics simulations provides an illuminating view of both the type and extent of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Albert Beardo , Prajit Rawte , Chia-Nien Tsai , Mahmoud I. Hussein

Boltzmann transport theory, the standard framework for predicting thermal conductivity, assumes that every vibrational mode eventually scatters, acquiring a finite lifetime that yields a convergent, length-independent thermal conductivity:…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 P. M. Martinez , O. Mateos-Lopez , J. C. Cuevas , J. G. Vilhena

Problems of heat transport are ubiquitous to various technologies such as power generation, cooling, electronics, and thermoelectrics. In this paper we advocate for the application of the quantum self-consistent reservoir method, which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Roya Moghaddasi Fereidani , Dvira Segal

This paper is devoted to the derivation of a macroscopic fractional diffusion equation describing heat transport in an anharmonic chain. More precisely, we study here the so-called FPU-$\beta$ chain, which is a very simple model for a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-05 Antoine Mellet , Sara Merino-Aceituno

The material dependence of phonon-polariton based in-plane thermal conductance is investigated by examining systems composed of air and several wurtzite and zinc-blende crystals. Phonon-polariton based thermal conductance varies by over an…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-05 Jacob D. Minyard , Thomas E. Beechem

Two different heat-transport mechanisms are discussed in solids: in crystals, heat carriers propagate and scatter particle-like as described by Peierls' formulation of the Boltzmann transport equation for phonon wavepackets. In glasses,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-12 Michele Simoncelli , Nicola Marzari , Francesco Mauri

Exact assessment of thermal spreading resistance is of great importance to the thermal management of electronic devices, especially when completely considering the heat conduction process from the nanoscale heat source to the macroscopic…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-11 Han-Ling Li , Yang Shen , Yu-Chao Hua , S. L. Sobolev , Bing-Yang Cao

The thermal conductivity of boron arsenide (BAs) is believed to be influenced by phonon scattering selection rules due to its special phonon dispersion. Compression of BAs leads to significant changes in phonon dispersion, which allows for…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-20 Songrui Hou , Bo Sun , Fei Tian , Qingan Cai , Shanming Wang , Wanyue Peng , Xi Chen , Zhifeng Ren , Chen Li , Richard Wilson

Thermal conduction was explored and discussed through a combined theoretical and simulation approach in this work. The thermal conductivity k of polycrystalline graphene was calculated by molecular dynamics simulations based on a hexagonal…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-06-05 Yanlei Wang , Zhigong Song , Zhiping Xu

Efficiently capturing the three-dimensional spatiotemporal distributions of temperature is of great significance for alleviating hotspot issues in 3D FinFETs. However, most previous thermal simulations mainly focused on the steady-state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Chuang Zhang , Ziyang Xin , Qin Lou , Hong Liang

We report finite-volume simulations of the phonon Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) for heat conduction across the heterogeneous interfaces in SiGe superlattices. The diffuse mismatch model incorporating phonon dispersion and polarization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-17 Dhruv Singh , Jayathi Y. Murthy , Timothy S. Fisher

Quantum thermal transport in armchair and zig-zag graphene nanoribbons are investigated in the presence of single atomic vacancies and subject to different boundary conditions. We start with a full comparison of the phonon polarizations and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-24 P. Scuracchio , S. Costamagna , F. M. Peeters , A. Dobry

The lattice thermal conductivity of graphene is evaluated using a microscopic model that takes into account the lattice's discrete nature and the phonon dispersion relation within the Brillouin zone. The Boltzmann transport equation is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-18 J. Chen , Y. Liu

Ultrafast thermal transport in low-dimensional materials challenges traditional diffusive models due to reduced scattering, strong electron-phonon coupling, and pronounced non-equilibrium effects. To address these complexities, we extend…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Houssem Rezgui , Chuang Zhang , Clivia Sotomayor-Torres

A temperature-dependent approach involving Green-Kubo equilibrium atomic and spin dynamics (GKEASD) is reported to assess phonon and magnon thermal transport processes accounting for phonon-magnon interactions. Using body-center cubic (BCC)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Yanguang Zhou , Julien Tranchida , Yijun Ge , Jayathi Y. Murthy , Timothy S. Fisher

Analyses of thermal diffusivity data on complex insulators and on strongly correlated electron systems hosted in similar complex crystal structures suggest that quantum chaos is a good description for thermalization processes in these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-14 Jiecheng Zhang , Erik D. Kountz , Kamran Behnia , Aharon Kapitulnik

The heat pulse experiment is a well-known method for determining thermal diffusivity. However, neither the measurement nor the evaluation methodologies are straightforward for heterogeneous, highly porous materials. In the present paper, we…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 Anna Fehér , Róbert Kovács , Ákos Sudár , Gergely Gábor Barnaföldi