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We present a theoretical study of radiative heat transport in nonlinear solid-state quantum circuits. We give a detailed account of heat rectification effects, i.e. the asymmetry of heat current with respect to a reversal of the thermal…

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We develop a dynamical theory of heat transfer between two nano systems. In particular, we consider the resonant heat transfer between two nanoparticles due to the coupling of localized surface modes having a finite spectral width. We model…

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We propose and study a spin-orbit interaction based mechanism to actively cool down the torsional vibration of a nanomechanical resonator made by semiconductor materials. We show that the spin-orbit interactions of electrons can induce a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Nan Zhao , D. L. Zhou , Jia-Lin Zhu , C. P. Sun

We present a theoretical description and numerical simulations of the superconducting transition in hybrid structures including strong spin-orbit interactions. The spin-orbit coupling is taken to be of Rashba type for concreteness, and we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-03-07 Haakon T. Simensen , Jacob Linder

In this paper we numerically conduct micromagnetic modelling with an expended micromagnetic model that includes the spin torque term and an impedance model to investigate methods to replace external field sources with internal ones and to…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Gino Hrkac , Thomas Schrefl , Julian Dean , Alexander Goncharov , Simon Bance , Dieter Suess , Josef Fidler

We study heat conduction in (n, 0)/(2n, 0) intramolecular junctions by using molecular dynamics method. It is found that the heat conduction is asymmetric, namely, heat transports preferably in one direction. This phenomenon is also called…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-18 Gang Wu , Baowen Li

We study the effects of spin transfer on thermally activated dynamics of magnetic nanopillars with identical thicknesses of the magnetic layers. The symmetric nanopillars exhibit anomalous dependencies of switching statistics on magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Weng L. Lim , Nicholas Anthony , Andrew Higgins , Sergei Urazhdin

Spin transfers in magnetic multilayers offers a promising pathway toward ultrafast, energy-efficient spintronic devices. In this study, we investigate the interfacial spin pumping and temperature-dependent spin current exchange in a…

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We study the phenomenon of spin-current rectification in a one-dimensional XXZ spin chain in the presence of a thermal drive. In our model a pure spin current is generated by a temperature difference between two harmonic heat baths which in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Juzar Thingna , Jian-Sheng Wang

We investigate the thermal radiation and thermal near-field energy density of a metal-coated semi-infinite body for different substrates. We show that the surface polariton coupling within the metal coating leads to an enhancement of the…

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We develop a theoretical framework for inertial spin-wave dynamics in three-dimensional twisted soft-magnetic nanostrips, where curvature and torsion couple with magnetic inertia to generate terahertz (THz) magnetic oscillations. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Massimiliano d'Aquino , Riccardo Hertel

We derive diffusion equations, which describe spin-charge coupled transport on the helical metal surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator. The main feature of these equations is a large magnitude of the spin-charge coupling,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 A. A. Burkov , D. G. Hawthorn

We investigate the transport properties of a graphene layer in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Quite generally, spin-orbit interactions induce spin splittings and modifications of the graphene bandstructure. We calculate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-05 M. I. Alomar , David Sanchez

The interplay between spin transport and thermoelectricity offers several novel ways of generating, manipulating, and detecting nonequilibrium spin in a wide range of materials. Here we formulate a phenomenological model in the spirit of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-22 B. Scharf , A. Matos-Abiague , I. Žutić , J. Fabian

We study the near-field radiative heat transfer between two twisted finite-size polar dielectric nanoparticle gratings. Differently from previous studies of the same configuration, we do not rely on any approximated effective medium theory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Minggang Luo , Junming Zhao , Mauro Antezza

Rectification of heat transfer in nanodevices can be realized by combining the system inherent anharmonicity with structural asymmetry. we analyze this phenomenon within the simplest anharmonic system -a spin-boson nanojunction model. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dvira Segal , Abraham Nitzan

We investigate the dynamics of two coupled macrospins connected to thermal baths at different temperatures. The system behaves like a diode which allows the propagation of energy and mag- netization currents in one direction only. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-08 Simone Borlenghi , Stefano Lepri , Lars Bergqvist , Anna Delin

Experiments have shown strong effects of some substrates on the localized plasmons of metallic nano particles but they are inconclusive on the affecting parameters. Here we have used Discrete Dipole Approximation in conjunction with…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-04 Murugesan Venkatapathi , Abhay K. Tiwari

A fluctuational electrodynamics-based formalism for calculating near-field radiative heat transfer between objects of arbitrary size and shape and an infinite surface is presented. The surface interactions are treated analytically via…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Sheila Edalatpour , Mathieu Francoeur