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American Physical Society, Physical review E: Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 2(87), 2013

DOI: 10.1103/physreve.87.022122

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Classical heat transport in anharmonic molecular junctions: Exact solutions

Journal article published in 2013 by Sha Liu, Bijay Kumar Agarwalla, Jian-Sheng Wang ORCID, Baowen Li
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Abstract

We study full counting statistics for classical heat transport through anharmonic or nonlinear molecular junctions formed by interacting oscillators. An analytical result of the steady-state heat flux for an overdamped anharmonic junction with arbitrary temperature bias is obtained. It is found that the thermal conductance can be expressed in terms of a temperature-dependent effective force constant. The role of anharmonicity is identified. We also give the general formula for the second cumulant of heat in steady state, as well as the average geometric heat flux when two system parameters are modulated adiabatically. We present an anharmonic example for which all cumulants for heat can be obtained exactly. For a bounded single oscillator model with mass we found that the cumulants are independent of the nonlinear potential.