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The system of nonlinear Langevin equations was obtained by using Hamiltonian's operator of two coupling quantum oscillators which are interacting with heat bath. By using the analytical solution of these equations, the analytical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-31 E. X. Alpomishev , Z. Kanokov

We investigate directed thermal heat flux across 1D homogenous nonlinear lattices when no net thermal bias is present on average. A nonlinear lattice of Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-type or Lennard-Jones-type system is connected at both ends to thermal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-12-18 Nianbei Li , Fei Zhan , Peter Hanggi , Baowen Li

Thermal fluctuations tend to destroy long-range phase correlations. Consequently, bosons in a lattice will undergo a transition from a phase-coherent superfluid as the temperature rises. Contrary to common intuition, however, we show that…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-17 Andrew Robertson , Victor M. Galitski , Gil Refael

The temperature of an oscillator coupled to the vacuum state of a heat bath via ohmic coupling is non-zero, as measured by the reduced density matrix of the oscillator. This paper shows that the actual temperature, as measured by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 William G. Unruh

We consider far from equilibrium heat transport in chaotic billiard chains with non-interacting charged particles in the presence of non-uniform transverse magnetic field. If half of the chain is placed in a strong magnetic field, or if the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-07-15 Giulio Casati , Carlos Mejia-Monasterio , Tomaz Prosen

We study the asymptotic behaviour of a finite network of oscillators (harmonic or anharmonic) coupled to a number of deterministic Lagrangian thermostats of finite energy. In particular, we consider a chain of oscillators interacting with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Andrey V. Dymov

We analyze the symmetries in an open quantum system composed by three coupled and detuned harmonic oscillators in the presence of a common heat bath. It is shown analytically how to engineer the couplings and frequencies of the system so as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Gonzalo Manzano , Fernando Galve , Roberta Zambrini

We theoretically investigate heat transport in hybrid normal metal-superconductor (NS) nanojunctions focusing on the effect of thermal rectification. We show that the heat diode effect in the junction strongly depends on the transmissivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-17 F. Giazotto , F. S. Bergeret

We study heat transport in a chain of harmonic oscillators with random elastic collisions between nearest-neighbours. The equations of motion of the covariance matrix are numerically solved for free and fixed boundary conditions. In the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-10 L. Delfini , S. Lepri , R. Livi , C. Mejia-Monasterio , A. Politi

An explicit demonstration is given of a harmonic oscillator in equilibrium approaching the equilibrium of a corresponding interacting system by coupling it to a thermal bath consisting of a continuum of harmonic oscillators.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-27 Vinay Ambegaokar

We consider an infinite chain of coupled harmonic oscillators with a Langevin thermostat at the origin. In the high frequency limit, we establish the reflection-transmission coefficients for the wave energy for the scattering of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-06-07 Tomasz Komorowski , Stefano Olla , Lenya Ryzhik , Herbert Spohn

We have investigated the lattice thermal transport across the asymmetric tilt grain boundary between armchair and zigzag graphene by nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD). We have observed significant temperature drop and ultra-low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Hai-Yuan Cao , Hongjun Xiang , Xin-Gao Gong

Thermal rectification which is a diode-like behavior of heat flux has been studied over a long time. However, a universal and systematic physical description is still lacking. In this letter, a perturbation theory of thermal rectification…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 Chuang Zhang , Meng An , Zhaoli Guo , Songze Chen

The dynamics of Davydov-Scott monomer in a thermal bath with higher order amide-site's displacement leads to anharmonic oscillation effect is investigated using full-quantum approach and the Lindblad formulation of master equation. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-20 A. Sulaiman , F. P. Zen , H. Alatas , L. T. Handoko

We present an exact solution of the Langevin's equation in the steady state limit in a three dimensional, harmonic crystal of slab geometry whose boundary surfaces along its length are connected to two stochastic, white noise heat baths at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-06-24 Shiladitya Acharya , Krishnendu Mukherjee

We generalize the oscillator model of a particle interacting with a thermal reservoir by introducing arbitrary nonlinear couplings in the particle coordinates.The equilibrium positions of the heat bath oscillators are promoted to space-time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 F. Illuminati , M. Patriarca , P. Sodano

We reformulate stochastic thermodynamics in terms of noise realizations for Langevin systems in contact with multiple reservoirs and investigated the structure of the second laws of thermodynamics. We derive a hierarchy of fluctuation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-08 Jae Sung Lee , Hyunggyu Park

The electrostatic screening properties of ionic fluids are of paramount importance in countless physical processes. Yet, the behavior of ionic conductors out of thermal equilibrium has to date mainly been studied in the context of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-19 Andrea Grisafi , Federico Grasselli

We compute the quantum Langevin equation (or quantum stochastic differential equation) representing the action of a quantum heat bath at thermal equilibrium on a simple quantum system. These equations are obtained by taking the continuous…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Attal , A. Joye

In this work we study the thermal rectification efficiency, i.e., asymmetric heat flow, of a three-dimensional mass-graded anharmonic lattice of length $N$ and width $W$ by means of nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-29 M. Romero-Bastida , M. Lindero-Hernández