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We study heat transport in quantum spin systems analytically and numerically. First, we demonstrate that heat current through a two-level quantum spin system can be modulated from zero to a finite value by tuning a magnetic field. Second,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yonghong Yan , Chang-Qin Wu , Baowen Li

We consider a linear chain of quantum harmonic oscillators, in which the number of the individual oscillators is given by an arbitrary number N, and each oscillator is coupled at an arbitrary strength kappa to its nearest neighbors…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-04 Ilki Kim

We obtain an analytical expression for the heat current between two overdamped quantum oscillators interacting with local thermal baths at different temperatures. The total heat current is split into classical and quantum contributions. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Sadeq S. Kadijani , Thomas L. Schmidt , Massimiliano Esposito , Nahuel Freitas

We focus on the non-equilibrium two-bath spin-boson model, a toy model for examining quantum thermal transport in many-body open systems. Describing the dynamics within the NIBA equations, applicable, e.g., in the strong system-bath…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 Lena Nicolin , Dvira Segal

The standard approach to non-equilibrium thermodynamics describes transport in terms of generalised forces and coupled currents, a typical example being the Fourier law that relates temperature gradient to the heat flux. Here we demonstrate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 Simone Borlenghi , Stefano Iubini , Stefano Lepri , Lars Bergqvist , Anna Delin , Jonas Frannson

We consider heat conduction across an ordered oscillator chain with harmonic interparticle interactions and also onsite harmonic potentials. The onsite spring constant is the same for all sites excepting the boundary sites. The chain is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dibyendu Roy , Abhishek Dhar

In this work, we investigate the multimode Brownian oscillators in nonequilibrium scenarios with multiple reservoirs at different temperatures. For this purpose, an algebraic method is proposed. This approach gives the exact time-local…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-12 Xin-Hai Tong , Hong Gong , Yao Wang , Rui-Xue Xu , YiJing Yan

A large number of multifaceted quantum transport processes in molecular systems and physical nanosystems can be treated in terms of quantum relaxation processes which couple to one or several fluctuating environments. A thermal equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Igor Goychuk , Peter Hanggi

In this work we study the heat transport in an XXZ spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain with homogeneous magnetic field, incoherently driven out of equilibrium by reservoirs at the boundaries. We focus on the effect of bulk dephasing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-07-17 J. J. Mendoza-Arenas , S. Al-Assam , S. R. Clark , D. Jaksch

We investigate the nonequilibrium quantum heat transfer in a triangle-coupled spin-boson system within a three-terminal setup. By including the nonequilibrium noninteracting blip approximation approach combined with the full counting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Chen Wang , Xu-Min Chen , Ke-Wei Sun , Jie Ren

We investigate quantum heat transfer and thermal management in the nonequilibrium qubit-phonon hybrid system by applying the quantum master equation embedded with phononic coherent state. We obtain the steady state heat flow by tuning the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-13 Chen Wang , Lu-Qin Wang , Jie Ren

We investigate nonequilibrium energy transfer in a single-site Bose-Hubbard model coupled to two thermal baths. By including a quantum kinetic equation combined with full counting statistics, we investigate the steady state energy flux and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Xu-Min Chen , Chen Wang , Ke-Wei Sun

Recent experiments in hybrid-quantum systems facilitate the potential realization of one of the most fundamental interacting Hamiltonian-Reservoir system, namely, the single-site Bose-Hubbard model coupled to two reservoirs at different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-02 Archak Purkayastha , Abhishek Dhar , Manas Kulkarni

Vibrational heat transport in molecular junctions is a central issue in different contemporary research areas like Chemistry, material science, mechanical engineering, thermoelectrics and power generation. Our model system consists of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-04 Jayasmita Behera , Malay Bandyopadhyay

We examine the electronic heat transport phenomena in nanoscale junctions composed of organic molecules coupled to two metallic reservoirs of different temperatures. The electronic heat flux and its dynamical noise properties are calculated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 Arthur Luniewski , Rita Aghjayan , Kamil Walczak

We investigate heat transport through a one-dimensional open coupled scalar field theory, depicted as a network of harmonic oscillators connected to thermal baths at the boundaries. The non-Hermitian dynamical matrix of the network…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-28 T. R. Vishnu , Dibyendu Roy

We investigate the local thermal transport in a quantum trimer of harmonic oscillators connected to two thermal baths. The coupling between them are augmented by complex phases which leads to the quantum control of the local atypical heat…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 Gobinda Chakraborty , Subhadeep Chakraborty , Tanmoy Basu , Manas Mukherjee

We investigate steady-state thermal transport and photon statistics in a nonequilibrium hybrid quantum system, in which a qubit is longitudinally and quadratically coupled to an optical resonator. Our calculations are conducted with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 Chen Wang , Hua Chen , Jie-Qiao Liao

We study the time-dependent transport of heat in a nanoscale thermal switch. The switch consists of left and right leads that are initially uncoupled. During switch-on the coupling between the leads is abruptly turned on. We use the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-10 Eduardo C. Cuansing , Jian-Sheng Wang

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