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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

This work aims to understand how quantum mechanics affects heat transport at low temperatures. In the classical setting, by considering a simple paradigmatic model, our simulations reveal the emergence of Negative Differential Thermal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-17 Zhixing Zou , Jiangbin Gong , Jiao Wang , Giulio Casati , Giuliano Benenti

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

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

Negative differential conductivity (NDC) is a widely exploited effect in modern electronic components. Here, a proof-of-principle is given for the observation of NDC in a quantum transport device for neutral atoms employing a multi-mode…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-08-24 Ralf Labouvie , Bodhaditya Santra , Simon Heun , Sandro Wimberger , Herwig Ott

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

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 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

We report on the existence of temperature induced negative differential conductivity (NDC) for electrons in gaseous nitrogen. The important role of superelastic rotational collisional processes in this phenomenon is highlighted. A model…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-16 M J E Casey , D G Cocks , G J Boyle , M J Brunger , S Dujko , J de Urquijo , R D White

Quantum heat transfer is analyzed in nonequilibrium two-qubits systems by applying the nonequilibrium polaron-transformed Redfield equation combined with full counting statistics. Steady state heat currents with weak and strong qubit-bath…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Huan Liu , Chen Wang , Lu-Qing Wang , Jie Ren

We review recent developments in nonlinear quantum transport through nanostructures and mesoscopic systems driven by thermal gradients or in combination with voltage biases. Low-dimensional conductors are excellent platforms to analyze both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-14 David Sanchez , Rosa Lopez

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 second-order nonlinear electronic thermal transport induced by temperature gradient. We develop the quantum kinetic theory framework to describe thermal transport in presence of a temperature gradient. Using this, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-05 Harsh Varshney , Kamal Das , Pankaj Bhalla , Amit Agarwal

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

When coupling thermal baths at different temperatures, negative differential thermal conductivity is typically attributed to nonlinear interactions in the connecting medium. In this work, we demonstrate that such an effect can arise purely…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-13 Simon Krekels , Christian Maes , Ion Santra , Ruoxun Zhai

In d-dimensional lattices of coupled quantum harmonic oscillators, we analyze the heat current caused by two thermal baths of different temperature, which are coupled to opposite ends of the lattice, with focus on the validity of Fourier's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-14 A. Asadian , D. Manzano , M. Tiersch , H. J. Briegel

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 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

Negative differential conductance (NDC) manifests as a significant characteristic of various underlying physics and transport processes in hybrid superconducting devices. In this work, we report the observation of gate-tunable NDC outside…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Mingli Liu , Dong Pan , Tian Le , Jiangbo He , Zhongmou Jia , Shang Zhu , Guang Yang , Zhaozheng Lyu , Guangtong Liu , Jie Shen , Jianhua Zhao , Li Lu , Fanming Qu

We investigate heat transport in a spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain, coupled locally to independent thermal baths of different temperature. The analysis is carried out within the framework of the theory of open systems by means of appropriate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hannu Wichterich , Markus J. Henrich , Heinz-Peter Breuer , Jochen Gemmer , Mathias Michel
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