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Understanding nanoscale hotspot thermal transport is crucial in electronic devices. Contrary to common perception, recent experiments show that closely spaced nanoscale multiple hotspots can enhance heat dissipation. Here, the thermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Yu He , Zhihao Zhou , Lina Yang , Nuo Yang

An $N$-dimensional nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation is investigated here by considering the time dependence of the coefficients, where drift-controlled and source terms are present. We exhibit the exact solution based on the generalized…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. C. Malacarne , R. S. Mendes , I. T. Pedron , E. K. Lenzi

A large class of physically important nonlinear and nonhomogeneous evolution problems, characterized by advection-like and diffusion-like processes, can be usefully studied by a time-differential form of Kolmogorov's solution of the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-08-24 R. G. Keanini

We describe a theoretical framework for the interpretation of time-resolved phonon absorption experiments carried out in the fractional quantum Hall regime of a magnetically quantized two-dimensional electron system (2des). The only phonons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Keith A. Benedict , R. K. Hills , C. J. Mellor

Suitably superimposed grey-medium solutions of the Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) provide a simple yet accurate description of non-grey quasiballistic heat conduction in transient thermal grating experiments. Recent applications of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-22 Bjorn Vermeersch , Ali Shakouri

In this paper, we present splitting algorithms to solve multicomponent transport models with Maxwell-Stefan-diffusion approaches. The multicomponent models are related to transport problems, while we consider plasma processes, in which the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Juergen Geiser

In this work, we consider the solvability of the Fokker-Planck equation with both time-dependent drift and diffusion coefficients by means of the similarity method. By the introduction of the similarity variable, the Fokker-Planck equation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Wen-Tsan Lin , Choon-Lin Ho

The frequency dependent phonon Boltzmann equation is transformed to an integral equation over the irreducible part of the Brillouin zone. Simultaneous diagonalization of the collision kernel of that equation and a symmetry crystal class…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-03-19 Laurent Chaput

Diffusion of particles in velocity space undergoing turbulent field was extensively studied in the problem of warm beam relaxation. Under low field intensities the diffusion is described by the Fokker-Planck equation with the diffusion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anatoly Zagorodny , Volodymyr Zasenko , Jan Weiland

We present a rigorous solution of the Boltzmann equation for the electron-phonon scattering problem in three spatial dimensions in the limit of low temperatures. The different temperature scaling of the various scattering rates turns the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 J. Amarel , D. Belitz , T. R. Kirkpatrick

Current theoretical approaches to the analysis of radiative heat exchange at the nanoscale are based on Rytov's stochastic electrodynamics. However, this approach falls short in the description of microscale energy transfer since it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-22 Luciano C. Lapas , Agustín Pérez-Madrid , J. Miguel Rubí

Starting from the quantum Liouville equation for the density operator and applying the Weyl quantization, Wigner equations for the longitudinal and transversal optical and acoustic phonons are deduced. The equations are valid for any solid,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-01-03 Vito Dario Camiola , Giorgia Vitanza , Vittorio Romano

Phonon transport of recently-fabricated $\mathrm{Na_2He}$ at high pressure is investigated from a combination of first-principles calculations and the linearized phonon Boltzmann equation within the single-mode relaxation time approximation…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-24 San-Dong Guo , Ai-Xia Zhang

Fractional Fokker-Planck equation plays an important role in describing anomalous dynamics. To the best of our knowledge, the existing discussions mainly focus on this kind of equation involving one diffusion operator. In this paper, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-08 Jing Sun , Weihua Deng , Daxin Nie

We present a general phase-space kinetic model for charged particle transport through combined localised and delocalised states, capable of describing scattering collisions, trapping, detrapping and losses. The model is described by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-14 Peter W. Stokes , Bronson Philippa , Daniel Cocks , Ronald D. White

This review summarizes recent studies of thermal transport in nanoscaled semiconductors. Different from bulk materials, new physics and novel thermal properties arise in low dimensional nanostructures, such as the abnormal heat conduction,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-14 Nuo Yang , Xiangfan Xu , Gang Zhang , Baowen Li

Problems of heat transport are ubiquitous to various technologies such as power generation, cooling, electronics, and thermoelectrics. In this paper we advocate for the application of the quantum self-consistent reservoir method, which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Roya Moghaddasi Fereidani , Dvira Segal

We present the detailed analysis of the diffusive transport of spatially inhomogeneous fluid mixtures and the interplay between structural and dynamical properties varying on the atomic scale. The present treatment is based on different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-19 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Simone Melchionna

Quasiballistic heat conduction, in which some phonons propagate ballistically over a thermal gradient, has recently become of intense interest. Most works report that the thermal resistance associated with nanoscale heat sources is far…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Chengyun Hua , Austin J. Minnich

Radiative heat exchange at the nanoscale presents a challenge for several areas due to its scope and nature. Here, we provide a thermokinetic description of microscale radiative energy transfer including phonon-photon coupling manifested…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-20 Agustín Pérez-Madrid , Luciano C. Lapas , J. Miguel Rubí