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Kirill A Velizhanin1, Michael Thoss, Haobin Wang
1Center for Nonlinear Studies (CNLS)/T-4, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA. kirill@lanl.gov
Abstract:
An analog of the Meir-Wingreen formula for the steady-state heat current through a model molecular junction is derived. The expression relates the heat current to correlation functions of operators acting only on the degrees of freedom of the molecular junction. As a result, the macroscopic heat reservoirs are not treated explicitly. This allows one to exploit methods based on a reduced description of the dynamics of a relatively small part of the overall system to evaluate the heat current through a molecular junction. The derived expression is applied to calculate the steady-state heat current in the weak coupling limit, where the Redfield theory is used to describe the reduced dynamics of the molecular junction. The results are compared with those of previously developed approximate and numerically exact methods.
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