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We demonstrate a direct approach to investigate heat transport in the fractional quantum Hall regime. At filling factor of 4/3, we inject power at quantum point contacts and detect the related heating from the activated current through a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-21 C. Altimiras , H. le Sueur , U. Gennser , A. Anthore , A. Cavanna , D. Mailly , F. Pierre

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

The field of thermotronics aims to develop thermal circuits that operate with temperature biases and heat currents just as how electronic circuits are based on voltages and electric currents. Here, we investigate a thermal half-wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-29 Pedro Portugal , Christian Flindt , Nicola Lo Gullo

We study the transport properties of a quantum dot contacted to two superconducting reservoirs by means of the Keldysh field theory approach, showing how this technique allows us to straightforwardly recover previous results, resulting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Marco Uguccioni , Luca Dell'Anna

Logical devices based on electrical currents are ubiquitous in modern society. However, digital logic does have some drawbacks such as a relatively high power consumption. It is therefore of great interest to seek alternative means to build…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-18 Marco Majland , Kasper Sangild Christensen , Nikolaj Thomas Zinner

Controlling heat flow at the quantum level is a key challenge for next-generation quantum technologies, including thermal management and quantum information processing. Here, we investigate quantum heat transport in an asymmetrically driven…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 C. O. Edet , K. Słowik , N. Ali , M. Asjad , O. Abah

The nonlinear electron and heat currents of quantum dot molecules (QDMs) under a temperature bias are theoretically investigated, including all correlation functions arising from electron Coulomb interactions in QDMs. Unlike the case of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-13 Chih-Chieh Chen , David M T Kuo , Yia-Chung Chang

We investigate the heat transport properties of a three-level system coupled to three thermal baths, assuming a model based on superconducting circuit implementations. The system-bath coupling is mediated by resonators which serve as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-11 Israel Díaz , Rafael Sánchez

We investigate quantum heat transfer and thermal management in the nonequilibrium qubit-phonon hybrid system by applying the quantum master equation embedded with phononic coherent state. We obtain the steady state heat flow by tuning the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-13 Chen Wang , Lu-Qin Wang , Jie Ren

We study the thermoelectric properties and heat-to-work conversion performance of an interacting, multi-level quantum dot (QD) weakly coupled to electronic reservoirs. We focus on the sequential tunneling regime. The dynamics of the charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-29 Paolo Andrea Erdman , Francesco Mazza , Riccardo Bosisio , Giuliano Benenti , Rosario Fazio , Fabio Taddei

We consider two modifications of a recently proposed three-terminal quantum dot heat engine. First, we investigate the necessity of the thermalization assumption, namely that electrons are always thermalized by inelastic processes when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-19 Christian H. Schiegg , Michael Dzierzawa , Ulrich Eckern

We investigate electronic thermal rectification in ferromagnetic insulator-based superconducting tunnel junctions. Ferromagnetic insulators coupled to superconductors are known to induce sizable spin splitting in the superconducting density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 F. Giazotto , F. S. Bergeret

We introduce a new class of mesoscopic heat engines consisting of a tunnel junction coupled to a linear thermal bath. Work is produced by transporting electrons up against a voltage bias like in ordinary thermoelectrics but heat is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-01 Tomi Ruokola , Teemu Ojanen

Thermoelectric effects result from the coupling of charge and heat transport, and can be used for thermometry, cooling and harvesting of thermal energy. The microscopic origin of thermoelectric effects is a broken electron-hole symmetry,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-04-08 S. Kolenda , P. Machon , D. Beckmann , W. Belzig

We examine transport through a quantum dot coupled to three ferromagnetic leads in the regime of weak tunnel coupling. A finite source-drain voltage generates a nonequilibrium spin on the otherwise non-magnetic quantum dot. This spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-28 Daniel Urban , Matthias Braun , Jürgen König

We investigate a mechanism for extracting heat from metallic conductors based on the energy-selective transmission of electrons through a spatially asymmetric resonant structure subject to ac driving. This quantum refrigerator can operate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-06 Miguel Rey , Michael Strass , Sigmund Kohler , Peter Hänggi , Fernando Sols

Nanoscale conductors are interesting for thermoelectrics because of their particular spectral features connecting separated heat and particle currents. Multiterminal devices in the quantum regime benefit from phase-coherent phenomena, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 José Balduque , Rafael Sánchez

As a fundamental requisite for thermotronics, controlling heat flow has been a longstanding quest in solid state physics. Recently, there has been a lot of interest in nanoscale hybrid systems as possible candidates for thermal devices. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-08 D. Oettinger , R. Chitra , Juliana Restrepo

Asymmetric heat transfer systems, often referred to as thermal diodes or thermal rectifiers, have garnered increasing interest due to their wide range of application possibilities. Most of those previous macroscopic thermal diodes either…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-09-09 Yishu Su , Ying Li , Minghong Qi , Sebastien Guenneau , Huagen Li , Jian Xiong

We present a unified description of heat flow in two-terminal hybrid quantum systems. Using simple models, we analytically study nonlinear aspects of heat transfer between various reservoirs: metals, solids, and spin baths, mediated by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Lian-Ao Wu , Claire X. Yu , Dvira Segal