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Negative differential thermal resistance (NDTR) can be generated for any one-dimensional heat flow with a temperature-dependent thermal conductivity. In a system-independent scaling analysis, the general condition for the occurrence of NDTR…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Ho-Kei Chan , Dahai He , Bambi Hu

It has recently been shown that in one-dimensional hard-point gases, there is a mechanism that induces negative differential thermal resistance (NDTR) between heat baths. We examine this mechanism in more general higher dimensional fluids…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-15 Rongxiang Luo , Juncheng Guo , Jun Zhang , Hanxin Yang

We study heat conduction through one-dimensional homogeneous lattices in the presence of the nonlinear on-site potentials containing the bounded and unbounded parts, and the harmonic interaction potential. We observe the occurrence of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-08-16 Bao-quan Ai , Wei-rong Zhong , Bambi Hu

We investigate the thermal transport properties of a temperature-biased Josephson tunnel junction composed of two different superconductors. We show that this simple system can provide a large negative differential thermal conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-21 Antonio Fornieri , Giuliano Timossi , Riccardo Bosisio , Paolo Solinas , Francesco Giazotto

We investigate how gravity influences negative differential thermal resistance (NDTR) in fluids modeled by multiparticle collision dynamics. In the integrable case, we derive the heat flux formula for the system exhibiting the NDTR effect,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-15 Qiyuan Zhang , Juncheng Guo , Juchang Zou , Rongxiang Luo

We investigate thermal transport in a two segment classical Heisenberg spin chain with nearest neighbor interaction and in presence of external magnetic field using computer simulation. The system is thermally driven by heat baths attached…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-11-11 Debarshee Bagchi

The negative differential thermal conductance (NDTC) provides the key mechanism for realizing thermal transistors. This exotic effect has been the object of an extensive theoretical investigation, but the implementation is still limited to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-17 Shobhit Saheb Dey , Giuliano Timossi , Luigi Amico , Giampiero Marchegiani

We show that in a finite one-dimensional (1D) system with diffusive thermal transport described by the Fourier's law, negative differential thermal conductance (NDTC) cannot occur when the temperature at one end is fixed. We demonstrate…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-03 Jiuning Hu , Yong P. Chen

Negative differential resistance in electronic conduction has been extensively studied, but it is not the case for its thermal counterpart, namely, negative differential thermal resistance (NDTR). We present a classical Landauer formula in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-01-22 Dahai He , Sahin Buyukdagli , Bambi Hu

Heat conduction through the Frenkel-Kontorova (FK) lattices is numerically investigated in the presence of a deformable substrate potential. It is found that the deformation of the substrate potential has a strong influence on heat…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-02-02 Bao-quan Ai , Bambi Hu

Owing to their sensitivity to temperature fluctuations, normal metal-insulator-superconductor (NIS) junctions are leveraged in various thermal devices. This study illustrates that two NISIN reservoirs can achieve a measurable negative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 M. Pioldi , G. De Simoni , A. Braggio , F. Giazotto

We report on the first model of a thermal transistor to control heat flow. Like its electronic counterpart, our thermal transistor is a three-terminal device with the important feature that the current through the two terminals can be…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-24 Baowen Li , Lei Wang , Giulio Casati

Using nonequilibrium molecular-dynamics simulations, we study the temperature dependence of the negative differential thermal resistance that appears in two-segment Frenkel-Kontorova lattices. We apply the theoretical method based on…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-05-26 Wei-Rong Zhong , Ping Yang , Bao-Quan Ai , Zhi-Gang Shao , Bambi Hu

We investigate the heat flow transport properties of a parallel-coupled double quantum-dot system connected to two reservoirs with a temperature bias in the Coulomb blockade regime. We demonstrate that the effects of thermal rectification…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Yanchao Zhang , Shanhe Su

Thermal rectification and negative differential thermal resistance are two important features that have direct technological relevance. In this paper, we study the classical one dimensional Heisenberg model, thermally driven by heat baths…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-23 Debarshee Bagchi

We propose a thermal transistor based on a three-terminal normal-superconductor (NS) junction with superconductor terminal acting as the base. The emergence of heat amplification is due to the negative differential thermal conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 Gaomin Tang , Jiebin Peng , Jian-Sheng Wang

A two-segment Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattices has been investigated by using nonequilibrium molecular dynamics. Here we present an anomalous negative differential thermal resistance (NDTR) that have not been reported in Frenkel-Kontorova and…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-30 Wei-Rong Zhong , Mao-Ping Zhang , Bao-Quan Ai , Bambi Hu

In this work, the near-field radiative heat transfer (NFRHT) between two Weyl semimetal (WSM) nanoparticles (NPs) is investigated. The numerical results show that negative differential thermal conductance (NDTC) effect can be obtained in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Yasong Sun , Yang Hu , Kezhang Shi , Jihong Zhang , Dudong Feng , Xiaohu Wu

Negative differential thermal conductance (NDTC), a hallmark of nonlinear quantum thermal transport, plays a critical role in the design of quantum thermal devices such as thermal diodes and transistors. The Lindblad dynamics predicts that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Zi-chen Zhang , Chang-shui Yu

Nonlinear electrical properties, such as negative differential resistance (NDR), are essential in numerous electrical circuits, including memristors. Several physical origins have been proposed to lead to the NDR phenomena in semiconductor…

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