Heat transport in harmonic oscillator systems with thermal baths: application to optomechanical arrays

We investigate the transport of phonons between N harmonic oscillators in contact with independent thermal baths and coupled to a common oscillator, and derive an expression for the steady state heat flow between the oscillators in the weak coupling limit. We apply these results to an optomechanical...

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Main Authors: André Xuereb, Alberto Imparato, Aurélien Dantan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2015-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/17/5/055013