Heat conduction in a force-driven lattice

BERAHA N; CARUSELA F

Praga

Conferencia; Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics; 2011

ICTP

Thermal transportation in nanoscale systems has attracted a lot of interest in recent years due to the progress in nanotechnology. In this work, we study by nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations the heat conduction through a one dimensional nonlinear lattice coupled to Langevin reservories (with time varying heath bath) and in the presence of a periodical driving force. We explore the resonance behavior of the energy transport when the frequency of the thermal bias is shifted in relation to the external driving one. We analyze the thermal properties and the possibility to achieve a heat pumping device in this force-thermal-driven system