Nonequilibrium Green's function approach to mesoscopic thermal transport

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We present a formulation of a nonequilibrium Green's function method for thermal current in nanojunction atomic systems with nonlinear interactions. This first-principle approach is applied to the calculation of the thermal conductance in carbon nanotube junctions. It is shown that nonlinearity already becomes important at low temperatures. Nonlinear interactions greatly suppress phonon transmission at room temperature. The peak of thermal conductance is found to be around 400K, in good agreement with experiments. High-order phonon scattering processes are important for diffusive heat transport.
4 pages, 4 figures

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Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/110796

Consulte el texto completo en el siguiente enlace:

https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0605028
 http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0605028
 Phys. Rev. B 74, 033408 (2006)
 doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.74.033408

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