Energy flux operator, current conservation and the formal Fourier's law

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/42/2/025302zbMATH Open1154.82037arXiv0804.3371OpenAlexW3100655384MaRDI QIDQ5504752FDOQ5504752

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Publication date: 22 January 2009

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: By revisiting previous definitions of the heat current operator, we show that one can define a heat current operator that satisfies the continuity equation for a general Hamiltonian in one dimension. This expression is useful for studying electronic, phononic and photonic energy flow in linear systems and in hybrid structures. The definition allows us to deduce the necessary conditions that result in current conservation for general-statistics systems. The discrete form of the Fourier's Law of heat conduction naturally emerges in the present definition.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.3371

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10) Dynamic lattice systems (kinetic Ising, etc.) and systems on graphs in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C20) Applications of statistical mechanics to specific types of physical systems (82D99)

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