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Characterization of Thermal Transport in One-dimensional Solid Materials
Published on: January 26, 2014
Normal heat conduction in one-dimensional momentum conserving lattices with asymmetric interactions
Yi Zhong1, Yong Zhang, Jiao Wang
1Department of Physics and Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
We study heat conduction behavior of one-dimensional lattices with asymmetric, momentum conserving interparticle interactions. We find that with a certain degree of interaction asymmetry, the heat conductivity measured in nonequilibrium stationary states converges in the thermodynamical limit. Our analysis suggests that the mass gradient resulting from asymmetric interactions may provide a phonon scattering mechanism in addition to that caused by nonlinear interactions.
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