Designing nonlinear thermal devices and metamaterials under the Fourier law: A route to nonlinear thermotics

GL Dai - Frontiers of Physics, 2021 - Springer
Nonlinear heat transfer can be exploited to reveal novel transport phenomena and thus
enhance people's ability to manipulate heat flux at will. However, there has not been a …

Towards phase-coherent caloritronics in superconducting circuits

A Fornieri, F Giazotto - Nature nanotechnology, 2017 - nature.com
The emerging field of phase-coherent caloritronics (from the Latin word calor, heat) is based
on the possibility of controlling heat currents by using the phase difference of the …

Anomalous Josephson effect

YM Shukrinov - Physics-Uspekhi, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
This review is devoted to one of the most relevant areas of modern condensed matter
physics, the anomalous Josephson effect (AJE), which consists of the appearance of a …

Negative differential thermal conductance between Weyl semimetals nanoparticles through vacuum

Y Sun, Y Hu, K Shi, J Zhang, D Feng, X Wu - Physica Scripta, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work, the near-field radiative heat transfer (NFRHT) between two Weyl semimetal
(WSM) nanoparticles (NPs) is investigated. The numerical results show that negative …

Josephson-threshold calorimeter

C Guarcello, A Braggio, P Solinas, GP Pepe… - Physical Review …, 2019 - APS
We suggest a single-photon thermal detector based on the abrupt jump of the critical current
of a temperature-biased tunnel Josephson junction formed by different superconductors …

Josephson thermal memory

C Guarcello, P Solinas, A Braggio, M Di Ventra… - Physical Review …, 2018 - APS
We propose a superconducting thermal memory device that exploits the thermal hysteresis
in a flux-controlled temperature-biased superconducting quantum-interference device …

Coulomb-coupled quantum-dot thermal transistors

Y Zhang, Z Yang, X Zhang, B Lin, G Lin… - Europhysics …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
A quantum-dot thermal transistor consisting of three Coulomb-coupled quantum dots
coupled to the respective electronic reservoirs by tunnel contacts is established. The heat …

High-efficiency thermal switch based on topological Josephson junctions

B Sothmann, F Giazotto… - New Journal of Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose theoretically a thermal switch operating by the magnetic-flux controlled
diffraction of phase-coherent heat currents in a thermally biased Josephson junction based …

Heat amplification and negative differential thermal conductance in a strongly coupled nonequilibrium spin-boson system

C Wang, XM Chen, KW Sun, J Ren - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
We investigate the nonequilibrium quantum heat transfer in a quantum thermal transistor,
constructed by a triangle-coupled spin-boson system in a three-terminal setup. By exploiting …

Thermal superconducting quantum interference proximity transistor

N Ligato, F Paolucci, E Strambini, F Giazotto - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Superconductors are excellent thermal insulators at low temperatures owing to the presence
of an energy gap in their density of states. Through the so-called proximity effect …