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Near-field heat transfer between graphene/hBN multilayers
We study the radiative heat transfer between multilayer structures made by a
periodic repetition of a graphene sheet and a hexagonal boron nitride (hBN)
slab. Surface plasmons in a monolayer graphene can couple with a hyperbolic
phonon polaritons in a single hBN film to form hybrid polaritons that can
assist photon tunneling. For periodic multilayer graphene/hBN structures, the
stacked metallic/dielectric array can give rise to a further effective
hyperbolic behavior, in addition to the intrinsic natural hyperbolic behavior
of hBN. The effective hyperbolicity can enable more hyperbolic polaritons that
enhance the photon tunneling and hence the near-field heat transfer. However,
the hybrid polaritons on the surface, i.e. surface plasmon-phonon polaritons,
dominate the near-field heat transfer between multilayer structures when the
topmost layer is graphene. The effective hyperbolic regions can be well
predicted by the effective medium theory (EMT), thought EMT fails to capture
the hybrid surface polaritons and results in a heat transfer rate much lower
compared to the exact calculation. The chemical potential of the graphene
sheets can be tuned through electrical gating and results in an additional
modulation of the heat transfer. We found that the near-field heat transfer
between multilayer structure does not increase monotonously with the number of
layer in the stack, which provides a way to control the heat transfer rate by
the number of graphene layers in the multilayer structure. The results may
benefit the applications of near-field energy harvesting and radiative cooling
based on hybrid polaritons in two-dimensional materials.Comment: 10 pages, 11 figure
Bifurcations of families of 1D-tori in 4D symplectic maps
The regular structures of a generic 4D symplectic map with a mixed phase
space are organized by one-parameter families of elliptic 1D-tori. Such
families show prominent bends, gaps, and new branches. We explain these
features in terms of bifurcations of the families when crossing a resonance.
For these bifurcations no external parameter has to be varied. Instead, the
longitudinal frequency, which varies along the family, plays the role of the
bifurcation parameter. As an example we study two coupled standard maps by
visualizing the elliptic and hyperbolic 1D-tori in a 3D phase-space slice,
local 2D projections, and frequency space. The observed bifurcations are
consistent with analytical predictions previously obtained for
quasi-periodically forced oscillators. Moreover, the new families emerging from
such a bifurcation form the skeleton of the corresponding resonance channel.Comment: 14 pages, 10 figures. For videos of 3D phase-space slices see
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Lagrangian Descriptors: A Method for Revealing Phase Space Structures of General Time Dependent Dynamical Systems
In this paper we develop new techniques for revealing geometrical structures
in phase space that are valid for aperiodically time dependent dynamical
systems, which we refer to as Lagrangian descriptors. These quantities are
based on the integration, for a finite time, along trajectories of an intrinsic
bounded, positive geometrical and/or physical property of the trajectory
itself. We discuss a general methodology for constructing Lagrangian
descriptors, and we discuss a "heuristic argument" that explains why this
method is successful for revealing geometrical structures in the phase space of
a dynamical system. We support this argument by explicit calculations on a
benchmark problem having a hyperbolic fixed point with stable and unstable
manifolds that are known analytically. Several other benchmark examples are
considered that allow us the assess the performance of Lagrangian descriptors
in revealing invariant tori and regions of shear. Throughout the paper
"side-by-side" comparisons of the performance of Lagrangian descriptors with
both finite time Lyapunov exponents (FTLEs) and finite time averages of certain
components of the vector field ("time averages") are carried out and discussed.
In all cases Lagrangian descriptors are shown to be both more accurate and
computationally efficient than these methods. We also perform computations for
an explicitly three dimensional, aperiodically time-dependent vector field and
an aperiodically time dependent vector field defined as a data set. Comparisons
with FTLEs and time averages for these examples are also carried out, with
similar conclusions as for the benchmark examples.Comment: 52 pages, 25 figure
Pointwise Green's function bounds and stability of relaxation shocks
We establish sharp pointwise Green's function bounds and consequent
linearized and nonlinear stability for smooth traveling front solutions, or
relaxation shocks, of general hyperbolic relaxation systems of dissipative
type, under the necessary assumptions ([G,Z.1,Z.4]) of spectral stability,
i.e., stable point spectrum of the linearized operator about the wave, and
hyperbolic stability of the corresponding ideal shock of the associated
equilibrium system. This yields, in particular, nonlinear stability of weak
relaxation shocks of the discrete kinetic Jin--Xin and Broadwell models. The
techniques of this paper should have further application in the closely related
case of traveling waves of systems with partial viscosity, for example in
compressible gas dynamics or MHD.Comment: 120 pages. Changes since original submission. Corrected typos, esp.
energy estimates of Section 7, corrected bad forward references, expanded
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