Thermal diode utilizing asymmetric contacts to heat baths

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

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Komatsu, Teruhisa S ^a   Ito, Nobuyasu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

A-THERMAL; CUT-OFF; HEAT BATH; HEAT CURRENTS; HEAT-CONDUCTING MEDIUM; NANO-SCALE SYSTEM; PACKING DENSITY; TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS; THERMAL DIODES;

DIODES;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 76249117550     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.010103     Document Type: Article

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20. We chose this boundary condition because of the convenience for the parallelized code. This choice is not essential for our results. At least, similar diode effects were observed for periodic boundary conditions in the z direction, in which the two heat baths (T1 and T2) are located with the separation length Lz /2.