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Quasi-Static Energy Transport between Nanoparticles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2015

George Y. Panasyuk  and
Kirk L. Yerkes
George Y. Panasyuk
Affiliation:
Aerospace System Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio 45433, U.S.A.
Kirk L. Yerkes
Affiliation:
Aerospace System Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio 45433, U.S.A.
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Abstract

We consider energy transfer between non-equal nanoparticles mediated by a quantum system. The nanoparticles are considered as thermal reservoirs described as ensembles of finite numbers of harmonic oscillators within the Drude-Ullersma model having mode spacings Δ1 and Δ2. Our approach is based on the generalized quantum Langevin equation. The quasi-static energy transport between the thermal reservoirs is investigated. As is shown, the double degeneracy of the mode frequencies, which occurred in the previously considered case when Δ1 = Δ2, is removed in the present case of non-equal mode spacings. Equations describing long-time (t ∼1/Δ1,2) relaxation for the mode temperatures (or the ensemble averaged mode energies) are solved and the resulting expression for the total energy current between the nanoparticles is derived and explored.

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nanoscalesimulationthermal conductivity
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1779: Symposium M – Nanoscale Heat Transport―From Fundamentals to Devices , 2015 , pp. 1 - 6
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2015 

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