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Exploiting the rich phenomenology of periodically-driven many-body systems is notoriously hindered by persistent heating in both the classical and quantum realm. Here, we investigate to what extent coupling to a large thermal reservoir…

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Deriving macroscopic phenomenological laws of irreversible thermodynamics from simple microscopic models is one of the tasks of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. We consider stationary energy transport in crystals with reference to…

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We study the non-equilibrium dynamics of two coupled mechanical oscillators with general linear couplings to two uncorrelated thermal baths at temperatures $T_1$ and $T_2$, respectively. We obtain the complete solution of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-07 Daniel Boyanovsky , David Jasnow

For open quantum systems coupled to a thermal bath at inverse temperature $\beta$, it is well known that under the Born-, Markov-, and secular approximations the system density matrix will approach the thermal Gibbs state with the bath…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-15 Gernot Schaller

A cornerstone assumption that most literature on discrete time crystals has relied on is that homogeneous Floquet systems generally heat to a featureless infinite temperature state, an expectation that motivated researchers in the field to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-01-04 Andrea Pizzi , Daniel Malz , Giuseppe De Tomasi , Johannes Knolle , Andreas Nunnenkamp

The influence of the environment in the thermal equilibrium properties of a bipartite continuous variable quantum system is studied. The problem is treated within a system-plus-reservoir approach. The considered model reproduces the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-05 D. M. Valente , A. O. Caldeira

The relative stability and ergodicity of deterministic time-reversible thermostats, both singly and in coupled pairs, are assessed through their Lyapunov spectra. Five types of thermostat are coupled to one another through a single…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-01-19 William Graham Hoover , Julien Clinton Sprott , Puneet Kumar Patra

Boltzmann transport theory, the standard framework for predicting thermal conductivity, assumes that every vibrational mode eventually scatters, acquiring a finite lifetime that yields a convergent, length-independent thermal conductivity:…

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One of the major challenges in stochastic thermodynamics is to compute the distributions of stochastic observables for small-scale systems for which fluctuations play a significant role. Hitherto much theoretical and experimental research…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-08 Deepak Gupta , David A. Sivak

Steady-state thermal transport in nanostructures with dimensions comparable to the phonon mean-free-path is examined. Both the case of contacts at different temperatures with no internal heat generation and contacts at the same temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Jan Kaiser , Tianli Feng , Jesse Maassen , Xufeng Wang , Xiulin Ruan , Mark Lundstrom

Entropy and temperature of a system in a coherent state are naturally defined on a base of a density matrix of the system. As an example, entropy and temperature are evaluated for coherent states of a harmonic oscillator and quantum field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. G. Bashkirov , A. D. Sukhanov

The heat current across a quantum harmonic system connected to reservoirs at different temperatures is given by the Landauer formula, in terms of an integral over phonon frequencies \omega, of the energy transmittance T(\omega). There are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-04 Suman G. Das , Abhishek Dhar

We study numerically the thermal conductivity in several different one dimensional chains. We show that the phonon-lattice interaction is the main ingredient of the Fourier heat law. Our argument provides a rather satisfactory explanation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Bambi Hu , Baowen LI , Hong Zhao

In a recent work, Somogyfoki et al. (J. Non-Equilib. Thermodyn. 50, 59-76, 2025) analysed the linear stability of homogeneous equilibrium in third-order non-Fourier heat conduction within the framework of non-equilibrium thermodynamics with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-16 Peter Ván , Réka Somogyfoki

For an one-dimensional (1D) momentum conserving system, intensive studies have shown that generally its heat current autocorrelation function (HCAF) tends to decay in a power-law manner and results in the breakdown of the Fourier heat…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-17 Hanqing Zhao , Wen-ge Wang

Energy transport can be influenced by the presence of other conserved quantities. We consider here diffusive systems where energy and the other conserved quantities evolve macroscopically on the same diffusive space-time scale. In these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-08 Stefano Olla

We consider a situation where an $N$-level system (NLS) is coupled successively to two heat baths with different temperatures without being necessarily thermalized and approaches a steady state. For this situation we apply a general…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-09 Heinz-Jürgen Schmidt , Jochen Gemmer

Based on the phonon Boltzmann transport equation under the relaxation time approximation, analytical expressions for the temperature profiles of both steady state and modulated heat conduction inside a thin film deposited on a substrate are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 Jose Ordonez-Miranda , Ronggui Yang , Sebastian Volz , J. J. Alvarado-Gil

The present work deals with three alternative generalized Bekenstein-Hawking formulation of thermodynamical parameters namely entropy and temperature for the universal thermodynamical system bounded by a horizon in the frame work of…

General Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 Subhajit Saha , Subenoy Chakraborty

Recent simulation results on heat conduction in a one-dimensional chain with an asymmetric inter-particle interaction potential and no onsite potential found non-anomalous heat transport in accordance to Fourier's law. This is a surprising…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 Suman G. Das , Abhishek Dhar , Onuttom Narayan