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A thermal diode transports heat mainly in one preferential direction rather than in the opposite direction. This behavior is generally due to the non-linear dependence of certain physical properties with respect to the temperature. Here we…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-16 Philippe Ben-Abdallah , Svend-Age Biehs

We present a thermal rectification device concept based on far-field radiative exchange between two selective emitters. Rectification is achieved due to the fact that one of the selective emitters radiative properties are independent on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-14 Elyes Nefzaoui , Jérémie Drevillon , Younès Ezzahri , Karl Joulain

By using non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations(NEMD), the modulation on temperature dependence of thermal conductivity of graphene phononic crystals (GPnCs) are investigated. It is found that the temperature dependence of thermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Shiqian Hu , Meng An , Nuo Yang , Baowen Li

We study gated field effect transistors (FETs) with fractal geometries under Dyakonov and Shur asymmetric boundary conditions, where the source and drain span the left and right edges of the device respectively. An AC THz potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-02 Bailey Winstanley , Alessandro Principi

Quantum thermal devices which can manage heat as their electronic analogues for the electronic currents have attracted increasing attention. Here a three-terminal quantum thermal device is designed by three coupling qubits interacting with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-12 Bao-qing Guo , Tong Liu , Chang-shui Yu

We demonstrate that when a quantum dot is embedded between the two reservoirs described by different statistical distribution functions, the reverse flow and amplification of heat can be realized by regulating the energy levels of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Jianying Du , Tong Fu , Jingyi Chen , Shanhe Su , Jincan Chen

Heat and noise control is essential for the continued development of quantum technologies. For this purpose, a particularly powerful tool is the heat rectifier, which allows for heat transport in one configuration of two baths but not the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-13 Kasper Poulsen , Nikolaj T. Zinner

Directional amplifiers are an important resource in quantum information processing, as they protect sensitive quantum systems from excess noise. Here, we propose an implementation of phase-preserving and phase-sensitive directional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 Daniel Malz , László D. Tóth , Nathan R. Bernier , Alexey K. Feofanov , Tobias J. Kippenberg , Andreas Nunnenkamp

In this work, we report on the emergence of a photonic Hall effect (PHE) system within a narrow filtered background of a one-dimensional defective optical dielectric structure with graphene under the static QHE regime. It is observed that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Dariush Jahani , Azizeh Alidoust Ghatar , Lida Abaspour , Tayebeh Jahani

Reconfigurable photonic systems featuring minimal power consumption are crucial for integrated optical devices in real-world technology. Current active devices available in foundries, however, use volatile methods to modulate light,…

We theoretically investigate photo-thermoelectric transport through a quantum wire in a photon cavity coupled to electron reservoirs with different temperatures. Our approach, based on a quantum master equation, allows us to investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-29 Nzar Rauf Abdullah , Chi-Shung Tang , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

We describe a new kind of phase-preserving quantum amplifier which utilizes dissipative interactions in a parametrically-coupled three-mode bosonic system. The use of dissipative interactions provides a fundamental advantage over standard…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-09 A. Metelmann , A. A. Clerk

We study the effect of photothermal fluctuations on squeezed states of light through the photo-refractive effect and thermal expansion in a degenerate optical parametric amplifier (OPA). We also discuss the effect of the photothermal noise…

Superconducting circuits provide a favorable platform for quantum thermodynamic experiments. An important component for such experiments is a heat valve, i.e. a device which allows one to control the heat power flowing through the system.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Minh Tam , George Thomas , Dmitry S. Golubev

Graphene is a promising material for nonlinear THz applications owing to its high third-order susceptibility and tunable optical properties. Its strong nonlinear response, driven by free-carrier thermodynamics, facilitates efficient…

Physical Reservoir Computing (PRC) is a recently developed variant of Neuromorphic Computing, where a pertinent physical system effectively projects information encoded in the input signal into a higher-dimensional space. While various…

Controlled heat transfer and thermal rectification in a system of two coupled cavities connected to thermal reservoirs are discussed. Embedding a dispersively interacting two-level atom in one of the cavities allows switching from a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-15 Nilakantha Meher , S. Sivakumar

High-power amplifiers are of great importance in many optical systems deployed in optical sensing, ranging, medical surgery, material processing and more. Likewise, high-gain, low-noise amplifiers with low polarization dependence are…

Quantum repeaters - fundamental building blocks for long-distance quantum communication - are based on the interaction between photons and quantum memories. The photons must fulfil stringent requirements on central frequency, spectral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Benjamin Brecht , Kai-Hong Luo , Harald Herrmann , Christine Silberhorn

This research examines the stability of crossed-field amplifiers (CFAs) and characterizes their different modes of operation: amplification, driven oscillation, and self-excited oscillation. The CFA used in this paper is the Recirculating…