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We emphasize the role of temperature in explaining the IV ovonic threshold switching curve of amorphous phase change materials. The Poole-Frankel conduction model is supplemented by considering effects of temperature on the conductivity in…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-09-25 J C Martinez , Ronald A Coutu , Turja Nandy , R E Simpson

Breakage is generally understood in mechanical terms, yet nano-structures can rupture not only under external loads but also via thermal activation. Here we treat in a general framework the statistical mechanics of thermally induced…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Cristiano Nisoli , Douglas Abraham , Turab Lookman , Avadh Saxena

We experimentally squeeze the thermal motional state of an optically levitated nanosphere, by fast switching between two trapping frequencies. The measured phase space distribution of our particle shows the typical shape of a squeezed…

Active thermal control is crucial in achieving the required accuracy and throughput in many industrial applications, e.g., in the medical industry, high-power lighting industry, and semiconductor industry. Thermoelectric Modules (TEMs) can…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-19 Enzo Evers , Rens Slenders , Rob van Gils , Tom Oomen

An analytical model of the spin-diode effect induced by resonant spin-transfer torque in a ferromagnetic bilayer with strong dipolar coupling provides the resonance frequencies and the lineshapes of the magnetic field spectra obtained under…

We report a Raman study of the effect of temperature on the self-energies of optical phonons in a number of transition metals with hexagonal-close-packed structure. Anisotropic softening of phonon energies and narrowing of phonon linewidths…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-04 Yu. S. Ponosov , S. V. Streltsov

The temperature dependent BCS equations are modified in order to include the contribution of the continuum single particle states. The influence of the continuum upon the critical temperature corresponding to the phase transition from a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 N. Sandulescu , O. Civitarese , R. J. Liotta

In this paper we generalize the results reported in Phys. Rev. A 88, 010101 (2013) and investigate the flow of information induced in a Coulomb crystal in presence of thermal noise. For several temperatures we calculate the non-Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-02 Massimo Borrelli , Sabrina Maniscalco

At low temperature using thermodynamics of irreversible processes the general expressions for the temperature dependence of the thermopower in the case of the hopping conductivity for disordered materials are found. The account of influence…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 O. E. Parfenov , F. A. Shklyaruk

Boiling is the out-of-equilibrium transition which occurs when a liquid is heated above its vaporization temperature. At the nanoscale, boiling may be triggered by irradiated nanoparticles immersed in water or nanocomposite surfaces and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-19 Oscar Gutiéerrez-Varela , Julien Lombard , Thierry Biben , Ruben Santamaria , Samy Merabia

This contribution is a brief introduction to nonthermal effects related to modifications of the interatomic potential upon ultrafast excitation of the electronic system of solids, primarily focusing on the swift heavy ion track problem. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-29 N. Medvedev , R. Voronkov , A. E. Volkov

Spin transfer torque from spin-polarized electrical current can excite large-amplitude magnetization dynamics in metallic ferromagnets of nanoscale dimensions. Since magnetic anisotropy energies of nanomagnets are comparable to the thermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-23 Xiao Cheng , Carl T. Boone , Jian Zhu , I. N. Krivorotov

By developing a two-dimensional (2D) full quantum simulation, the attributes of carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNTFETs) in different temperatures have been comprehensively investigated. Simulations have been performed by…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-07 Ali Naderi , S. Mohammad Noorbakhsh , Hossein Elahipanah

Quantum devices are affected by intrinsic and environmental noises. An in-depth characterization of noise effects is essential for exploiting noisy quantum computing. To this end, we studied the energy dissipative behavior of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-14 Tadashi Kadowaki , Masayuki Ohzeki

It is known by now that amorphous solids at zero temperature do not possess a nonlinear elasticity theory: besides the shear modulus which exists, all the higher order coefficients do not exist in the thermodynamic limit. Here we show that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-06-15 Itamar Procaccia , Corrado Rainone , Carmel Shor , Murari Singh

Spin-transfer torque in asymmetric spin valves can destabilize both parallel and antiparallel configurations and can lead to precessional modes also in the absence of an external magnetic field. We find a bistable precessional regime in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Gmitra , J. Barnas

We here numerically investigate the heat transport behavior in a one-dimensional lattice with a soft-type (ST) anharmonic interparticle interaction. It is found that with the increase of system's temperature, while the introduction of ST…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-26 Daxing Xiong

The temperature dependence of the symmetry energy and the symmetry free energy coefficients of atomic nuclei is investigated in a finite temperature Thomas-Fermi framework employing the subtraction procedure. A substantial decrement in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 J. N. De , S. K. Samaddar

We present a qualitative model study of energy and temperature dependence of hot electron magnetotransport. This model calculations are based on a simple argument that the inelastic scattering strength of hot electrons is strongly spin and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Jisang Hong

Temperature is a deceptively simple concept that still raises deep questions at the forefront of quantum physics research. The observation of thermalisation in completely isolated quantum systems, such as cold-atom quantum simulators,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-09 Mark T. Mitchison , Archak Purkayastha , Marlon Brenes , Alessandro Silva , John Goold