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Nanoscale Quantum Thermal Conductance at Water Interface: Green’s Function Approach Based on One-Dimensional Phonon Model
We have derived the fundamental formula of phonon transport in water for the evaluation of quantum thermal conductance by using a one-dimensional phonon model based on the nonequilibrium Green’s function method. In our model, phonons are excited as quantum waves from the left or right reservoir and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7179406/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32151110 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules25051185 |
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author | Umegaki, Toshihito Tanaka, Shigenori |
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description | We have derived the fundamental formula of phonon transport in water for the evaluation of quantum thermal conductance by using a one-dimensional phonon model based on the nonequilibrium Green’s function method. In our model, phonons are excited as quantum waves from the left or right reservoir and propagate from left to right of H [Formula: see text] O layer or vice versa. We have assumed these reservoirs as being of periodic structures, whereas we can also model the H [Formula: see text] O sandwiched between these reservoirs as having aperiodic structures of liquid containing N water molecules. We have extracted the dispersion curves from the experimental absorption spectra of the OH stretching and intermolecular modes of water molecules, and calculated phonon transmission function and quantum thermal conductance. In addition, we have simplified the formulation of the transmission function by employing a case of one water molecule (N=1). From this calculation, we have obtained the characteristic that the transmission probability is almost unity at the frequency bands of acoustic and optical modes, and the transmission probability vanishes by the phonon attenuation reflecting the quantum tunnel effect outside the bands of these two modes. The classical limit of the thermal conductance calculated by our formula agreed with the literature value (order of [Formula: see text] W/K) in high temperature regime (>300 K). The present approach is powerful enough to be applicable to molecular systems containing proteins as well, and to evaluate their thermal conductive characteristics. |
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spelling | pubmed-71794062020-04-28 Nanoscale Quantum Thermal Conductance at Water Interface: Green’s Function Approach Based on One-Dimensional Phonon Model Umegaki, Toshihito Tanaka, Shigenori Molecules Article We have derived the fundamental formula of phonon transport in water for the evaluation of quantum thermal conductance by using a one-dimensional phonon model based on the nonequilibrium Green’s function method. In our model, phonons are excited as quantum waves from the left or right reservoir and propagate from left to right of H [Formula: see text] O layer or vice versa. We have assumed these reservoirs as being of periodic structures, whereas we can also model the H [Formula: see text] O sandwiched between these reservoirs as having aperiodic structures of liquid containing N water molecules. We have extracted the dispersion curves from the experimental absorption spectra of the OH stretching and intermolecular modes of water molecules, and calculated phonon transmission function and quantum thermal conductance. In addition, we have simplified the formulation of the transmission function by employing a case of one water molecule (N=1). From this calculation, we have obtained the characteristic that the transmission probability is almost unity at the frequency bands of acoustic and optical modes, and the transmission probability vanishes by the phonon attenuation reflecting the quantum tunnel effect outside the bands of these two modes. The classical limit of the thermal conductance calculated by our formula agreed with the literature value (order of [Formula: see text] W/K) in high temperature regime (>300 K). The present approach is powerful enough to be applicable to molecular systems containing proteins as well, and to evaluate their thermal conductive characteristics. MDPI 2020-03-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7179406/ /pubmed/32151110 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules25051185 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Umegaki, Toshihito Tanaka, Shigenori Nanoscale Quantum Thermal Conductance at Water Interface: Green’s Function Approach Based on One-Dimensional Phonon Model |
title | Nanoscale Quantum Thermal Conductance at Water Interface: Green’s Function Approach Based on One-Dimensional Phonon Model |
title_full | Nanoscale Quantum Thermal Conductance at Water Interface: Green’s Function Approach Based on One-Dimensional Phonon Model |
title_fullStr | Nanoscale Quantum Thermal Conductance at Water Interface: Green’s Function Approach Based on One-Dimensional Phonon Model |
title_full_unstemmed | Nanoscale Quantum Thermal Conductance at Water Interface: Green’s Function Approach Based on One-Dimensional Phonon Model |
title_short | Nanoscale Quantum Thermal Conductance at Water Interface: Green’s Function Approach Based on One-Dimensional Phonon Model |
title_sort | nanoscale quantum thermal conductance at water interface: green’s function approach based on one-dimensional phonon model |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7179406/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32151110 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules25051185 |
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