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Results of heat pulse experiments in various artificial and natural materials are reported in the paper. The experiments are performed at room temperature with macroscopic samples. It is shown that temperature evolution does not follow the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-08 P. Ván , A. Berezovski , T. Fülöp , Gy. Gróf , R. Kovács , Á. Lovas , J. Verhás

The second law of thermodynamics dictates that heat flows spontaneously from a high-temperature entity to a lower-temperature one. Yet, recent advances have demonstrated that quantum correlations between a system and its thermal environment…

In this work, we aim to study the thermal properties of materials using classical molecular dynamics simulations and specialized numerical methods. We focus primarily on the thermal conductivity \kappa using non-equilibrium molecular…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-03 Jonathan Severin , Philippe Jund

A novel equation of heat conduction is derived with the help of a generalized entropy current and internal variables. The obtained system of constitutive relations is compatible with the momentum series expansion of the kinetic theory. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-16 R. Kovács , P. Ván

We measure the thermal conductivity ($\kappa$) of individual InAs nanowires (NWs), and find that it is 3 orders of magnitude smaller than the bulk value in the temperature range of 10 to 50 K. We argue that the low $\kappa$ arises from the…

We consider heat fluctuations and fluctuation theorems for systems driven by multiple reservoirs. We establish a fundamental symmetry obeyed by the joint probability distribution for the heat transfers and system coordinates. The symmetry…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-03 Hans C. Fogedby , Alberto Imparato

We examine the interplay of surface and volume effects in systems undergoing heat flow. In particular, we compute the thermal conductivity in the FPU $\beta$ model as a function of temperature and lattice size, and scaling arguments are…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kenichiro Aoki , Dimitri Kusnezov

We show that for one dimensional systems with momentum conservation, the thermal conductivity $\kappa$ generically diverges with system size as $L^{1/3}.$

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Onuttom Narayan , Sriram Ramaswamy

We give a uniform bound from below on the temperature for a variant of the compressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier system, under suitable hypotheses. This system of equations forms a mathematical model of the motion of a compressible fluid…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-06 Eric Baer , Alexis Vasseur

Heat conduction at low temperatures show various effects that cannot be described by the Fourier law, like the second sound and ballistic propagation. In this paper the performance of various theories is compared in case of ballistic and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-11 R. Kovács , P. Ván

We present a theoretical study of the compressibility, $\kappa$, in a Fermi gas with attractive contact interactions, providing predictions for the strongly-attractive regime and the superfluid phase. Our work emphasizes the compressibility…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-16 Hao Guo , Yan He , Chih-Chun Chien , K. Levin

The thermal conductivity $\kappa$ of the Kondo insulator SmB$_6$ was measured at low temperature, down to 70 mK, in magnetic fields up to 15 T, on single crystals grown using both the floating-zone and the flux methods. The residual linear…

We present analytical and numerical results on the heat conduction in a linear mixing system. In particular we consider a quasi one dimensional channel with triangular scatterers with internal angles irrational multiples of pi and we show…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Baowen Li , Giulio Casati , Jiao Wang

We present a study of thermal conductivity, $\kappa$, in undoped and doped strontium titanate in a wide temperature range (2-400 K) and detecting different regimes of heat flow. In undoped SrTiO$_{3}$, $\kappa$ evolves faster than cubic…

We consider chains consisting of several identical subsystems weakly coupled by various types of next neighbor interactions. At both ends the chain is coupled to a respective heat bath with different temperature modeled by a Lindblad…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mathias Michel , Jochen Gemmer , Guenter Mahler

Heat conduction phenomena are studied theoretically using computer simulation. The systems are crystal with nonlinear interaction, and fluid of hard-core particles. Quasi-one-dimensional system of the size of $L_x\times L_y\times L_z(L_z\gg…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Takashi Shimada , Teruyoshi Murakami , Satoshi Yukawa , Keiji Saito , Nobuyasu Ito

In this reply we answer the comment by A. Dhar (cond-mat/0203077) on our Letter "Simple one dimensional model of heat conduction which obeys Fourier's law" (Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5486 (2001), cond-mat/0104453)

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Pedro L. Garrido , Pablo I. Hurtado

We numerically study the thermal transport in the classical inertial nearest-neighbor XY ferromagnet in $d=1,2,3$, the total number of sites being given by $N=L^d$, where $L$ is the linear size of the system. For the thermal conductance…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-14 Constantino Tsallis , Henrique Santos Lima , Ugur Tirnakli , Deniz Eroglu

Thermal transport coefficient $\kappa$ is an important property that often dictates broad applications of a polymeric material, while at the same time its computation remains challenging. In particular, classical simulations overestimate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-12 Debashish Mukherji

Starting from a classical thermodynamic approach, we derive rate-type equations to describe the behavior of heat flow in deformable media. Constitutive equations are defined in the material (Lagrangian) description where the standard time…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-02-02 Claudio Giorgi , Angelo Morro , Federico Zullo