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Hydrodynamic second sound can be generated by heat pulses when the phonon-phonon interaction is dominantly momentum conserving, and the propagation of the temperature field becomes wavelike rather than diffusive. While the Boltzmann…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-08 Xin Qian , Chuang Zhang , Te-Huan Liu , Ronggui Yang

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

The direct simulation of the dynamics of second sound in graphitic materials remains a challenging task due to lack of methodology for solving the phonon Boltzmann equation in such a stiff hydrodynamic regime. In this work, we aim to tackle…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Xiao-Ping Luo , Yang-Yu Guo , Mo-Ran Wang , Hong-Liang Yi

In the present work, thermal transport and energy conversation in two thermoelectrically efficient candidates of Janus SnSSe and SnS$_2$ are investigated within the non-equilibrium Monte Carlo simulation of phonon Boltzmann equation. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 Seyedeh Ameneh Bahadori , Zahra Shomali

A complex approach phonon quantum discrete model (PQDM) was developed to describe dynamics, kinetics and statistics of phonons in carbon nanostructures with zero-chirality of both zig-zag and armchair geometry. The model allows include into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Ya. Glushko , V. N. Evteev , M. V. Moiseenko , N. A. Slusarenko , A. A. Zakhidov

A discovery of the unusual thermal properties of graphene stimulated experimental, theoretical and computational research directed at understanding phonon transport and thermal conduction in two-dimensional material systems. We provide a…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-16 Denis L. Nika , Alexander A. Balandin

The origins of hydrodynamic transport in strongly interacting Dirac and Weyl semimetals have remained elusive in theoretical descriptions and experimental measurements. We investigate the structure and microscopic properties of transport in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-26 Jennifer Coulter , Ravishankar Sundararaman , Prineha Narang

We develop a two-dimensional stochastic dissipative theory for the description of the transport of exciton polaritons accounting for their interaction with the environment of acoustic phonons. Our approach is based on the explicit modeling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-16 D. V. Karpov , T. C. H. Liew , I. G. Savenko

The Boltzmann transport equation for phonons is recast directly in terms of the heat-flux by means of iteration followed by truncation at the second order in the spherical harmonic expansion of the distribution function. This procedure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Ashok T. Ramu , John E. Bowers

Thermal transport is an important energy transfer process in nature. Phonon is the major energy carrier for heat in semiconductor and dielectric materials. In analogy to Ohm's law for electrical conductivity, Fourier's law is a fundamental…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-11-27 Sha Liu , Xiangfan Xu , Rongguo Xie , Gang Zhang , Baowen Li

Thermal transport in the Si/SiO$_2$ multishell nanotubes is investigated theoretically. The phonon energy spectra are obtained using the atomistic Lattice Dynamics approach. Thermal conductivity is calculated using the Boltzmann transport…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-30 C. Isacova , A. Cocemasov , D. L. Nika , V. M. Fomin

Heat conduction in dielectric crystals originates from the propagation of atomic vibrations, whose microscopic dynamics is well described by the linearized phonon Boltzmann transport equation. Recently, it was shown that thermal…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Michele Simoncelli , Nicola Marzari , Andrea Cepellotti

We show that the local temperature dependence of thermalized electron and phonon populations along metallic carbon nanotubes is the main reason behind this non-linear transport characteristics in the high bias regime. Our model that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. A. Kuroda , J. -P. Leburton

We analyze from a microscopic point of view the feasibility of a hydrodynamic regime in a type-I Weyl semimetal driven by electron-electron interactions mediated by virtual phonons. Considering also the effects of of impurities and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-14 Joan Bernabeu , Alberto Cortijo

The Boltzmann transport equation is one of the most relevant framework to study the heat transport at the nanoscale, beyond the diffusive regime and up to the micrometer-scale. In the general case of three-dimensional devices, the particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 B. Davier , J. Larroque , P. Dollfus , L. Chaput , S. Volz , D. Lacroix , J. Saint-Martin

Thermal conductivity in dielectric crystals is the result of the relaxation of lattice vibrations described by the phonon Boltzmann transport equation. Remarkably, an exact microscopic definition of the heat carriers and their relaxation…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-26 Andrea Cepellotti , Nicola Marzari

Non-diffusive, fluid-like transport of charge and heat has been observed in several materials, raising the question of whether they can emerge simultaneously and how they are related to bi-component electron-phonon fluids. Here we introduce…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Jennifer Coulter , Bogdan Rajkov , Michele Simoncelli

Deviations from diffusive heat transport in high thermal conductivity crystalline insulators are generally understood within the framework of the phonon Boltzmann Transport Equation. However, for low thermal conductivity materials with…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-11 Laurenz Kremeyer , Bradley J. Siwick , Samuel Huberman

Electrical and thermal transport across material interfaces is key for 2D electronics in semiconductor technology, yet their relationship remains largely unknown. We report a theoretical proposal to separate electronic and phononic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Linxin Zhai , Zhiping Xu

Steady-state thermal transport in nanostructures with dimensions comparable to the phonon mean-free-path is examined. Both the case of contacts at different temperatures with no internal heat generation and contacts at the same temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Jan Kaiser , Tianli Feng , Jesse Maassen , Xufeng Wang , Xiulin Ruan , Mark Lundstrom