Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 232–235 (1998)Quantized Thermal Conductance of Dielectric Quantum Wires
See accompanying Physics Focus Using the Landauer formulation of transport theory, we predict that dielectric quantum wires should exhibit quantized thermal conductance at low temperatures in a ballistic phonon regime. The quantum of thermal conductance is universal, independent of the characteristics of the material, and equal to π2kB2T/3h where kB is the Boltzmann constant, h is Planck's constant, and T is the temperature. Quantized thermal conductance should be experimentally observable in suspended nanostructures adiabatically coupled to reservoirs, devices that can be realized at the present time. © 1998 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.232
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.232
PACS:
85.30.Vw, 63.22.+m, 73.23.Ad
See AlsoComment: A. Greiner, L. Reggiani, and T. Kuhn, Comment on “Quantized Thermal Conductance of Dielectric Quantum Wires”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5037 (1998). Reply: Luis G. Rego and George Kirczenow, Rego and Kirczenow Reply:, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5038 (1998). |
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