Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

Transmission of heat modes across a potential barrier

  • Amir Rosenblatt,
  • Fabien Lafont,
  • Ivan Levkivskyi,
  • Ron Sabo,
  • Itamar Gurman,
  • Daniel Banitt,
  • Moty Heiblum,
  • Vladimir Umansky

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02433-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Understanding the transfer of heat currents, specifically, neutral heat modes which do not carry net charge, is of great interest. Here, the authors study the transmission of upstream neutral modes through a quantum point contact in order to render the relative spatial distribution of these chargeless modes.