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Ultrafast thermal transport in low-dimensional materials challenges traditional diffusive models due to reduced scattering, strong electron-phonon coupling, and pronounced non-equilibrium effects. To address these complexities, we extend…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Houssem Rezgui , Chuang Zhang , Clivia Sotomayor-Torres

The object of this paper is the uniqueness for a $d$-dimensional Fokker-Planck type equation with non-homogeneous (possibly degenerated) measurable not necessarily bounded coefficients. We provide an application to the probabilistic…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-09-19 Nadia Belaribi , Francesco Russo

Heat conduction in dielectric crystals originates from the propagation of atomic vibrations, whose microscopic dynamics is well described by the linearized phonon Boltzmann transport equation. Recently, it was shown that thermal…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Michele Simoncelli , Nicola Marzari , Andrea Cepellotti

We consider a linear phonon Boltzmann equation with a reflecting/transmitting/absorbing interface. This equation appears as the Boltzmann-Grad limit for the energy density function of a harmonic chain of oscillators with inter-particle…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-03-08 Giada Basile , Tomasz Komorowski , Stefano Olla

We study hydrodynamic phonon heat transport in two-dimensional (2D) materials. Starting from the Peierls-Boltzmann equation within the Callaway model, we derive a 2D Guyer-Krumhansl-like equation describing non-local hydrodynamic phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Man-Yu Shang , Jing-Tao Lü

The Fokker-Planck equation is a partial differential equation that describes the evolution of a probability distribution over time. It is used to model a wide range of physical and biological phenomena, such as diffusion, chemical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-11-29 Wisit Mangthas , Waipot Ngamsaad

Numerical prediction of multiscale heat transfer is a challenging problem due to the wide range of time and length scales involved. In this work a discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) is developed for heat transfer in materials with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-02-05 Zhaoli Guo , Kun Xu

We propose an extension of the Fokker-Planck model of the Boltzmann equation to get a correct Prandtl number in the Compressible Navier-Stokes asymptotics. This is obtained by replacing the diffusion coefficient (which is the equilibrium…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-17 J Mathiaud , L Mieussens

We study the general solution of the Fokker-Planck equation in d dimensions with arbitrary space and time dependent diffusion matrix and drift term. We show how to construct the solution, for arbitrary initial distributions, as an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-15 Adel Bilal

In this paper we analyze fractional Fokker-Planck equation describing subdiffusion in the general infinitely divisible (ID) setting. We show that in the case of space-time-dependent drift and diffusion and time-dependent jump coefficient,…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-10-01 Marcin Magdziarz , Tomasz Zorawik

The relaxation of a spatially sinusoidal temperature perturbation in a dielectric crystal at a temperature comparable to or higher than the Debye temperature is investigated theoretically. We assume that most phonons contributing to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-12 A. A. Maznev , Jeremy A. Johnson , Keith A. Nelson

We provide a stochastic fractional diffusion equation description of energy transport through a finite one-dimensional chain of harmonic oscillators with stochastic momentum exchange and connected to Langevian type heat baths at the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-22 Aritra Kundu , Cédric Bernardin , Keji Saito , Anupam Kundu , Abhishek Dhar

Phonons are the main heat carriers in semiconductor devices. In small devices, heat is not driven by a local temperature gradient, but by local points of heat input and removal. This complicates theoretical modeling. Study of the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-04-27 Philip B. Allen , Nhat Ahn Nghiem Vu

Deviations from diffusive heat transport in high thermal conductivity crystalline insulators are generally understood within the framework of the phonon Boltzmann Transport Equation. However, for low thermal conductivity materials with…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-11 Laurenz Kremeyer , Bradley J. Siwick , Samuel Huberman

Developing simplified, but accurate, theoretical approaches to treat heat transport on all length and time scales is needed to further enable scientific insight and technology innovation. Using a simplified form of the Boltzmann transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Jesse Maassen , Mark Lundstrom

Starting from first principles, we formulate a theory of wave packet propagation in a nonlinear, disordered medium of any dimension, through the derivation of a Fokker-Planck transport equation. Our theory is based on a diagrammatic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-10-28 Nicolas Cherroret , Thomas Wellens

In a previous work, a perturbative approach to a class of Fokker-Planck equations, which have constant diffusion coefficients and small time-dependent drift coefficients, was developed by exploiting the close connection between the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Wen-Tsan Lin , Choon-Lin Ho

We formulate a short-time expansion for one-dimensional Fokker-Planck equations with spatially dependent diffusion coefficients, derived from stochastic processes with Gaussian white noise, for general values of the discretization parameter…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Tom Dupont , Stefano Giordano , Fabrizio Cleri , Ralf Blossey

We study the transmission coefficient of a plane wave through a 1D finite quasi-periodic system -- the Frenkel-Kontorova (FK) model -- embedding in an infinite uniform harmonic chain. By varying the mass of atoms in the infinite uniform…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Peiqing Tong , Baowen Li , Bambi Hu

Equation of long-range particle drift and diffusion on three-dimensional physical lattice is suggested. This equation can be considered as a lattice analogof space-fractional Fokker-Planck equation for continuum. The lattice approach gives…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-13 Vasily E. Tarasov