Thermal conductance of graphene and dimerite

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We investigate the phonon thermal conductance of graphene regarding the graphene sheet as the large-width limit of graphene strips in the ballistic limit. We find that the thermal conductance depends weakly on the direction angle $θ$ of the thermal flux periodically with period $π/3$. It is further shown that the nature of this directional dependence is the directional dependence of group velocities of the phonon modes in the graphene, originating from the $D_{6h}$ symmetry in the honeycomb structure. By breaking the $D_{6h}$ symmetry in graphene, we see more obvious anisotropic effect in the thermal conductance as demonstrated by dimerite.
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