Thermal Transport in Crystals as a Kinetic Theory of Relaxons
Thermal conductivity in dielectric crystals is the result of the relaxation of lattice vibrations described by the phonon Boltzmann transport equation. Remarkably, an exact microscopic definition of the heat carriers and their relaxation times is still missing: Phonons, typically regarded as the rel...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2016-10-01
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| Series: | Physical Review X |
| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.6.041013 |