Colloquium: Quantum heat transport in condensed matter systems

Abstract

In this Colloquium recent advances in the field of quantum heat transport are reviewed. This topic has been investigated theoretically for several decades, but only during the past twenty years have experiments on various mesoscopic systems become feasible. A summary of the theoretical basis for describing heat transport in one-dimensional channels is first provided. Then the main experimental investigations of quantized heat conductance due to phonons, photons, electrons, and anyons in such channels are presented. These experiments are important for understanding the fundamental processes that underly the concept of a heat conductance quantum for a single channel. Then an illustration on how one can control the quantum heat transport by means of electric and magnetic fields, and how such tunable heat currents can be useful in devices is given. This lays the basis for realizing various thermal device components such as quantum heat valves, rectifiers, heat engines, refrigerators, and calorimeters. Also of interest are fluctuations of quantum heat currents, both for fundamental reasons and for optimizing the most sensitive thermal detectors; at the end of the review the status of research on this intriguing topic is given.

References in corpus (35)

• Charge insensitive qubit design derived from the Cooper pair box
• Quantum Thermodynamic Cycles and quantum heat engines
• Single ion heat engine with maximum efficiency at maximum power
• Quantum limit of heat flow across a single electronic channel
• Single-mode heat conduction by photons
• Markovian master equations for quantum thermal machines: local vs global approach
• Markovian Master Equations: A Critical Study
• The Josephson heat interferometer
• Rectification of electronic heat current by a hybrid thermal diode
• Quantum dot as thermal rectifier
• Violation of the Wiedemann-Franz Law in a Single-Electron Transistor
• Test of Jarzynski and Crooks fluctuation relations in an electronic system
• Micrometre-scale refrigerators
• Heat Transistor: Demonstration of Gate-Controlled Electron Refrigeration
• Otto refrigerator based on a superconducting qubit: classical and quantum performance
• Bolometer operating at the threshold for circuit quantum electrodynamics
• Tuning Energy Relaxation along Quantum Hall Channels
• Thermal rectification in nonlinear quantum circuits
• Imaging resonant dissipation from individual atomic defects in graphene
• Nonadiabatic single-qubit quantum Otto engine
• Heat diode and engine based on quantum Hall edge states
• Phase Modulated Thermal Conductance of Josephson Weak Links
• Theory of quantum-circuit refrigeration by photon-assisted electron tunneling
• Heat transport through a Josephson junction
• Speeding-up a quantum refrigerator via counter-diabatic driving
• Experimental realization of a Coulomb blockade refrigerator
• Two-Stroke Optimization Scheme for Mesoscopic Refrigerators
• Electronic coolers based on superconducting tunnel junctions: fundamentals and applications
• Non-linear transport in an out-of-equilibrium single-site Bose Hubbard model: scaling, rectification and time dynamics
• Phase sensitive electron-phonon coupling in a superconducting proximity structure
• Thermal conductance of Nb thin films at sub-kelvin temperatures
• Phase-dependent heat transport in Josephson junctions with p-wave superconductors and superfluids
• Thermal power of heat flow through a qubit
• Electron cooling by phonons in superconducting proximity structures
• Utilization of the Superconducting Transition for Characterizing Low-Quality-Factor Superconducting Resonators

Cited by in corpus (8)

• Photonic heat transport in three terminal superconducting circuit
• Geometric thermodynamic uncertainty relation in periodically driven thermoelectric heat engine
• Hybrid quantum thermal machines with dynamical couplings
• Quantum heat valve and entanglement in superconducting $LC$ resonators
• Heat transport through a two-level system under continuous quantum measurement
• Quantum Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relations, Generalized Current Fluctuations and Nonequilibrium Fluctuation-Dissipation Inequalities
• Asymmetric power dissipation in electronic transport through a quantum point contact
• Mesoscopic Quantum Thermo-mechanics: a new frontier of experimental physics