Spin-boson thermal rectifier

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Segal, Dvira ^a,b   Nitzan, Abraham ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANHARMONIC SYSTEMS; HEAT RESERVOIRS; MOLECULAR JUNCTIONS; NANOWIRES; SPIN-BOSON THERMAL RECTIFIER;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; ENERGY TRANSFER; HAMILTONIANS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUANTUM THEORY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 18044393820     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.034301     Document Type: Article

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