Nonequilibrium Green's function method for thermal transport in junctions

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Wang, Jian Sheng ^a,b,c   Zeng, Nan ^a   Wang, Jian ^a   Gan, Chee Kwan ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^c SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; MEAN FIELD THEORY; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ATOMIC VIBRATIONS; FERMI-PASTA-ULAM MODEL; NONLINEAR EFFECT; RING JUNCTION;

GREEN'S FUNCTION;

EID: 34547244017     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.061128     Document Type: Article

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