We report on progress in developing a magnetotelluric inversion method for two-dimensional anisotropic conductivity distribution. A standard two-dimensional model is discretized into a number of rectangular cells, each with a constant conductivity tensor, and the solution of the inverse problem is obtained by minimizing a global objective functional consisting of data misfit, a structural const...

terest, because the thermal conductivity due to magnons, κmagnons, has been found to be large in some low-dimensional copper-oxides.1) Theoretically, the existence of a ballistic κmagnon has been predicted in integrable systems,2) and actually a large thermal conductivity associated with the ballistic κmagnon has been observed in one-dimensional Heisenberg chain systems SrCuO2 and Sr2CuO3. 3) A...

The thermal properties of carbon nanotubes display a wide range of behaviors which are related both to their graphitic nature and their unique structure and size. The specific heat of individual nanotubes should be similar to that of two-dimensional graphene at high temperatures, with the effects of phonon quantization becoming apparent at lower temperatures. Inter-tube coupling in SWNT ropes, ...

Heat conduction of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) isotope-superlattice is investigated by means of classical molecular dynamics simulations. Superlattice structures were formed by alternately connecting SWNTs with different masses. On varying the superlattice period, the critical value with minimum effective thermal conductivity was identified, where dominant physics switches from zone-...

The fin efficiency of a high-thermal-conductivity substrate coated with a low-thermalconductivity layer is considered, and an analytical solution is presented and compared to alternative approaches for calculating fin efficiency. This model is appropriate for frost formation on a round-tube-and-fin metallic heat exchanger, and the problem can be cast as conduction in a composite two-dimensional...

We show that the surface plasmons of a two-dimensional Dirac metal such as graphene can be reflected by linelike perturbations hosting one-dimensional electron states. The reflection originates from a strong enhancement of the local optical conductivity caused by optical transitions involving these bound states. We propose that the bound states can be systematically created, controlled, and liq...

We study systems of coupled spin-gapped and gapless Luttinger liquids. First, we establish the existence of a sliding Luttinger liquid phase for a system of weakly coupled parallel quantum wires, with and without disorder. It is shown that the coupling can stabilize a Luttinger liquid phase in the presence of disorder. We then extend our analysis to a system of crossed Luttinger liquids and est...