Heat transport in harmonic lattices

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 805-824

  Dhar, Abhishek ^a   Roy, Dibyendu ^a  

^a RAMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Fourier's law; Harmonic crystal; Non equilibrium Green's function; Quantum Langevin equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845605072     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-006-9235-3     Document Type: Article

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