Diffusive-ballistic heat conduction of finite-length single-walled carbon nanotubes has been studied by means of non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. The length-dependence of thermal conductivity is quantified for a range of nanotube-lengths up to a micrometer at room temperature. A gradual transition from nearly pure ballistic to diffusive-ballistic heat conduction was identified fr...

We address the pair of conjugated field modes obtained from parametricdownconversion as a convenient system to analyze the quantum-classical transition in the continuous variable regime. We explicitly evaluate intensity correlations, negativity and entanglement for the system in a thermal state and show that a hierarchy of nonclassicality thresholds naturally emerges in terms of thermal and dow...

We study the presence and effect of subglacial water on the motion of inland ice in western Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. A full-Stokes model including three routing schemes for a thin film of subglacial water and a modification of a Weertman-type sliding relation, to account for higher sliding velocities under wet basal conditions, were used to perform 200 ka spin-up simulations on a 2.5 km ...

Using non-equilibrium molecular dynamics, we show that asymmetrically defected graphene nanoribbons (GNR) are promising thermal rectifiers. The optimum conditions for thermal rectification (TR) include low temperature, high temperature bias, 1% concentration of single-vacancy or substitutional silicon defects, and a moderate partition of the pristine and defected regions. TR ratio of 80% is fou...

The renewed interest for critical fluctuations in superconductors is due to the enormous variety of interesting phenomena observed in the last decade. In a zero external field regime, non-classical values of the critical exponents and amplitude ratios were measured. In the observed critical region we have −0.03 < α < 0, ν ≈ 0.67 and A+/A− ≈ 1.065. These values were measured for bulk samples of ...

Heat flow in nanomaterials is an important area of study, with both fundamental and technological implications. However, little is known about heat flow in two-dimensional devices or interconnects with dimensions comparable to the phonon mean free path. Here we find that short, quarter-micron graphene samples reach ~35% of the ballistic thermal conductance limit up to room temperature, enabled ...

The diffusive-ballistic heat conduction of finite-length single-walled carbon nanotubes has been studied by means of nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. The length dependence of thermal conductivity [1] is quantified for a range of nanotube lengths up to 1.6 μm at room temperature. A gradual transition from nearly pure ballistic to diffusive-ballistic heat conduction was identified f...

An idealized GCM is used to investigate how the strength and meridional extent of the Hadley circulation depend on the planet radius, rotation rate, and thermal driving. Over wide parameter ranges, the strength and meridional extent of the Hadley circulation display clear scaling relations with regime transitions, which are not predicted by existing theories of axisymmetric Hadley circulations....

One of the most important issues whether anisotropic conductive film (ACF) interconnection technology is suitable to be used for flip chip on organic board applications is thermal cycling reliability. In this study, thermally induced deformations and warpages of ACF flip chip assemblies as a function of distance from neutral point (DNP) and ACF materials properties were investigated using in si...

A computational study of the growth of two-dimensional nematic spherulites in an isotropic phase was performed using a Landau-de Gennes-type quadrupolar tensor order parameter model for the first-order isotropic/nematic transition of 5CB (pentylcyanobiphenyl). An energy balance, taking anisotropy into account, was derived and incorporated into the time-dependent model. Growth laws were determin...