Characterizing the performance of heat rectifiers

A physical system connected to two thermal reservoirs at different temperatures is said to act as a heat rectifier when it is able to bias the heat current in a given direction, similarly to an electronic diode. We propose to quantify the performance of a heat rectifier by mapping out the tradeoff b...

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Main Authors: Shishir Khandelwal, Martí Perarnau-Llobet, Stella Seah, Nicolas Brunner, Géraldine Haack
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2023-02-01
Series:Physical Review Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.013129