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Heat transport by acoustic phonons in 2D materials is fundamentally different from that in 3D crystals because the out-of-plane phonons propagate in a unique way that strongly depends on tension and bending rigidity. Since in-plane and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-15 H. Liu , M. Lee , M. Šiškins , H. S. J. van der Zant , P. G. Steeneken , G. J. Verbiest

Acoustic holes are the hydrodynamic analogue of standard black holes. Featuring an acoustic horizon, these systems spontaneously emit phonons at the Hawking temperature. We derive the Hawking temperature of the acoustic horizon by fully…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-21 Massimo Mannarelli , Dario Grasso , Silvia Trabucco , Maria Luisa Chiofalo

We calculate the rate of energy flow between two macroscopic bodies, each in thermodynamic equilibrium at a different temperature, and joined by a weak mechanical link. The macroscopic solids are assumed to be electrically insulating, so…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kelly R. Patton , Michael R. Geller

We calculate numerically the normal modes of vibrations in 3D jammed packings of soft spheres as a function of the packing fraction and obtain the energy diffusivity, a spectral measure of transport that controls sound propagation and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-05-29 Vincenzo Vitelli , Ning Xu , Matthieu Wyart , Andrea J. Liu , Sidney R. Nagel

The ab initio model for heat propagation is the phonon transport equation, a Boltzmann-like kinetic equation. When two materials are put side by side, the heat that propagates from one material to the other experiences thermal boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Irene M Gamba , Qin Li , Anjali Nair

We present an exact solution for the heat conductance along a harmonic chain connecting two reservoirs at different temperatures. In this model, the end points correspond to Brownian particles with different damping coefficients. Such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-09 G. A. Weiderpass , Gustavo M. Monteiro , A. O. Caldeira

Some of the most exciting recent advancements in heat conduction physics have been motivated, enabled, or achieved by the thermal management community that ITherm serves so effectively. In this paper we highlight the resulting renaissance…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-07-31 Aditya Sood , Eric Pop , Mehdi Asheghi , Kenneth E. Goodson

While phonon topology in crystalline solids has been extensively studied, its influence on thermal transport-especially in nanostructures-remains elusive. Here, by combining first-principles-based machine learning potentials with the phonon…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-23 Zhe Su , Shuoran Song , Qi Wang , Jian-Hua Jiang

The thermal conductance by phonons of a quasi-one-dimensional solid with isotope or defect scattering is studied using the Landauer formalism for thermal transport. The conductance shows a crossover from localized to Ohmic behavior, just as…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 P. G. Murphy , J. E. Moore

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 realization of single-molecule thermal conductance measurements has driven the need for theoretical tools to describe conduction processes that occur over atomistic length scales. In macroscale systems, the principle that is typically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 Galen T. Craven , Abraham Nitzan

Nonequilibrium multi-carrier thermal transport is essential for both scientific research and technological applications in electronic, spintronic, and energy conversion devices. This article reviews the fundamentals of phonon, electron,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-18 Te-Huan Liu , Tianyu Wang , Jun Zhou , Xin Qian , Ronggui Yang

We address the problem of heat transport in a chain of coupled quantum harmonic oscillators, exposed to the influences of local environments of various nature, stressing the effects that the specific nature of the environment has on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-16 F. Nicacio , A. Ferraro , A. Imparato , M. Paternostro , F. L. Semião

The non-Fourier heat conduction phenomenon on room temperature is analyzed from various aspects. The first one shows its experimental side, in what form it occurs and how we treated it. It is demonstrated that the Guyer-Krumhansl equation…

Allotropes of carbon, such as diamond and graphene, are among the best conductors of heat. We monitored the evolution of thermal conductivity in thin graphite as a function of temperature and thickness and found an intimate link between…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-25 Yo Machida , Nayuta Matsumoto , Takayuki Isono , Kamran Behnia

The wave property of phonons is employed to explore the thermal transport across a finite periodic array of nano-scatterers such as circular and triangular holes. As thermal phonons are generated in all directions, we study their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 Thu Trang Nghiem Thi , P. -Olivier Chapuis

Detecting coherent phonons pose different challenges compared to coherent photons due to the much stronger interaction between phonons and matter. This is especially true for high frequency heat carrying phonons, which are intrinsic lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Ding Ding , Xiaobo Yin , Baowen Li

We study full counting statistics for classical heat transport through anharmonic/nonlinear molecular junctions formed by interacting oscillators. Analytical result of the steady state heat flux for an overdamped anharmonic junction with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-13 Sha Liu , Bjiay Kumar Agarwalla , Jian-Sheng Wang , Baowen Li

The creation and evolution of nonequilibrium phonons is central in applications ranging from cosmological particle searches to decoherence processes in qubits. However, the fundamental understanding of decoherence pathways for athermal…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-18 Thomas F. Harrelson , Ibrahim Hajar , Omar A. Ashour , Sinéad M. Griffin

The existing techniques of account for the phonon dispersion are computationally costly, while its impact on a variety of thermodynamic properties appears negligible. We develop a mathematical formalism, which allows for clear understanding…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-05-01 Roman Belousov , Mauro Prencipe