Nonequilibrium Energy Transfer at Nanoscale: A Unified Theory from Weak to Strong Coupling
arXiv:1410.4366 · doi:10.1038/srep11787
Abstract
We investigate the microscopic mechanism of quantum energy transfer in the nonequilibrium spin-boson model. By developing a nonequilibrium polaron-transformed Redfield equation based on fluctuation decoupling, we dissect the energy transfer into multi-boson associated processes with even or odd parity. Based on this, we analytically evaluate the energy flux, which smoothly bridges the transfer dynamics from the weak spin-boson coupling regime to the strong-coupling one. Our analysis explains previous limiting predictions and provides a unified interpretation of several observations, including coherence-enhanced heat flux and absence of negative differential thermal conductance in the nonequilibrium spin-boson model. The results may find wide applications for the energy and information control in nanodevices.
11 pages, 4 figures
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