Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan.
Phys Rev Lett. 2010 Jan 29;104(4):040601. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.040601. Epub 2010 Jan 26.
We perform nonequilibrium simulations of heat conduction in a three dimensional anharmonic lattice. By studying slabs of length N and width W, we examine the crossover from one dimensional to three dimensional behavior of the thermal conductivity kappa. We find that for large N, the crossover takes place at a small value of the aspect ratio W/N. From our numerical data we conclude that the three dimensional system has a finite nondiverging kappa and thus provides the first verification of Fourier's law in a system without pinning.
我们对三维非谐晶格中的热导进行了非平衡模拟。通过研究长度为 N、宽度为 W 的薄片,我们考察了热导率 κ从一维到三维的转变。我们发现,对于较大的 N,在较小的宽长比 W/N 处发生转变。从我们的数值数据中,我们得出结论,三维系统具有有限的非发散 κ,从而首次在无钉扎系统中验证了傅里叶定律。