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In this perspective, we discuss thermal imbalance and the associated electron-mediated thermal transport in quantum electronic devices at very low temperatures. We first present the theoretical approaches describing heat transport in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-09 Danial Majidi , Justin P. Bergfield , Ville Maisi , Johannes Höfer , Hervé Courtois , Clemens B. Winkelmann

We review recent developments in nonlinear quantum transport through nanostructures and mesoscopic systems driven by thermal gradients or in combination with voltage biases. Low-dimensional conductors are excellent platforms to analyze both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-14 David Sanchez , Rosa Lopez

Transport properties provide important access to a solid's quasiparticles, such as quasiparticle density, mobility, and scattering. The transport of heat can be particularly revealing because, in principle, all types of excitations in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-19 Christian Hess

In the recent years, the thermal Hall transport has risen as an important diagnosis of the physical properties of the elementary excitations in various quantum materials, especially among the Mott insulating systems where the electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-19 Xiao-Tian Zhang , Yong Hao Gao , Gang Chen

The relation between thermal transport and gravity was highlighted in the seminal work by Luttinger in 1964, and has been extensively developed to understand thermal transport, most notably the thermal Hall effect. Here we review the novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-02 Maxim N. Chernodub , Yago Ferreiros , Adolfo G. Grushin , Karl Landsteiner , María A. H. Vozmediano

The thermoelectric transport coefficients are calculated in a generic lattice model of multi-Weyl semimetals with a broken time-reversal symmetry by using the Kubo's linear response theory. The contributions connected with the Berry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-01 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

Weyl semimetals host linear energy dispersions around Weyl nodes, as well as monopoles of Berry curvature in momentum space around these points. These features give rise to unique transport signatures in a Weyl semimetal, such as transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Robert C. McKay , Timothy M. McCormick , Nandini Trivedi

We analyze the effect of the tilt on the transverse thermoelectric coefficient of Weyl semimetals in the \emph{conformal} limit, i.e., zero temperature and zero chemical potential. Using the Kubo formalism, we find a nonmonotonic behavior…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Thorvald M. Ballestad , Alberto Cortijo , María A. H. Vozmediano , Alireza Qaiumzadeh

Characterizing the nature of hydrodynamical transport properties in quantum dynamics provides valuable insights into the fundamental understanding of exotic non-equilibrium phases of matter. Experimentally simulating infinite-temperature…

In this Chapter, we present recent theoretical developments on the finite temperature transport of one dimensional electronic and magnetic quantum systems as described by a variety of prototype models. In particular, we discuss the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 X. Zotos , P. Prelovsek

We develop a theory of thermal transport of weakly interacting electrons in quantum wires. Unlike higher-dimensional systems, a one-dimensional electron gas requires three-particle collisions for energy relaxation. The fastest relaxation is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Alex Levchenko , Tobias Micklitz , Zoran Ristivojevic , K. A. Matveev

Quantum geometry, a quantum mechanical quantity comprised of Berry curvature and quantum metric, describes the geometric structure of the electronic bands in solids. The correlation between nontrivial quantum geometry and quantum materials…

We investigate heat transport in various quantum spin chains, using the projector operator technique. We find that anomalous heat transport is linked not to the integrability of the Hamiltonian, but to whether it can be mapped to a model of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jinshan Wu , Mona Berciu

This work aims to understand how quantum mechanics affects heat transport at low temperatures. In the classical setting, by considering a simple paradigmatic model, our simulations reveal the emergence of Negative Differential Thermal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-17 Zhixing Zou , Jiangbin Gong , Jiao Wang , Giulio Casati , Giuliano Benenti

Nonreciprocal transport phenomena indicate that the forward and backward flows differ, and are attributed to broken inversion symmetry. In this paper, we study the nonreciprocity of a thermal and thermoelectric transport of electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Ryota Nakai , Naoto Nagaosa

Hydrodynamic fluidity in condensed matter physics has been experimentally demonstrated only in a limited number of compounds due to the stringent conditions that must be met. Herein, we performed thermal and electrical transport experiments…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-25 Chang-woo Cho , Peipei Wang , Fangdong Tang , Sungkyun Park , Mingquan He , Rolf Lortz , Genda Gu , Qiang Li , Liyuan Zhang

The thermal transport coefficients in a weakly magnetized quark-gluon plasma have been investigated within the ambit of a quasiparticle model to encode the effects of the realistic equation of state. The presence of a weak magnetic field…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-07-27 Manu Kurian

For the solid state physics, recent interest to topological systems is mostly connected with topological semimetals, in particular, to Weyl ones as the most representative semimetal type. Like other topological materials, e.g. topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 E. V. Deviatov

Conventional transport theory is not really applicable to non-equilibrium systems which exhibit strong quantum effects. We present two different approaches to overcome this problem. Firstly we point out how transport equations may be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 P. A. Henning , K. Nakamura , Y. Yamanaka

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are fluid-like states of quantum spins where its long-range ordered state is destroyed by quantum fluctuations. The ground state of QSL and its exotic phenomena, which have been extensively discussed for decades,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-10-25 Minoru Yamashita , Takasada Shibauchi , Yuji Matsuda
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