Nonequilibrium Green's function approach to mesoscopic thermal transport

Abstract

We present a formulation of a nonequilibrium Green's function method for thermal current in nanojunction atomic systems with nonlinear interactions. This first-principle approach is applied to the calculation of the thermal conductance in carbon nanotube junctions. It is shown that nonlinearity already becomes important at low temperatures. Nonlinear interactions greatly suppress phonon transmission at room temperature. The peak of thermal conductance is found to be around 400K, in good agreement with experiments. High-order phonon scattering processes are important for diffusive heat transport.

4 pages, 4 figures

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• Nonequilibrium Green's Function Approach to Phonon Transport in Defective Carbon Nanotubes

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