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Ballistic Thermal Transistor of Dielectric Four-terminal Nanostructures
We report a theoretical model for a thermal transistor in dielectric
four-terminal nanostructures based on mesoscopic ballistic phonon transport, in
which a steady thermal flow condition of system is obtained to set up the
temperature field effect of gate. In the environment, thermal flow shows the
transisting behaviors at low temperatures: saturation, asymmetry, and
rectification. The phenomena can be explained reasonably by the nonlinear
variation of the temperature dependence of propagating phonon modes in
terminals. The results suggest the possibility of the novel nano-thermal
transistor fabrication
Entropy/Area spectra of the charged black hole from quasinormal modes
With the new physical interpretation of quasinormal modes proposed by
Maggiore, the quantum area spectra of black holes have been investigated
recently. Adopting the modified Hod's treatment, results show that the area
spectra for black holes are equally spaced and the spacings are in a unified
form, , in Einstein gravity. On the other hand,
following Kunstatter's method, the studies show that the area spectrum for a
nonrotating black hole with no charge is equidistant. And for a rotating (or
charged) black hole, it is also equidistant and independent of the angular
momentum (or charge ) when the black hole is far from the extremal case.
In this paper, we mainly deal with the area spectrum of the stringy charged
Garfinkle-Horowitz-Strominger black hole, originating from effective action
that emerges in the low-energy string theory. We find that both methods give
the same results-that the area spectrum is equally spaced and does not depend
on the charge . Our study may provide new insights into understanding the
area spectrum and entropy spectrum for stringy black holes.Comment: 13 pages, no figure
Free vibration of orthotropic thin plate with clamped edges
The explicit solutions for the natural frequencies and mode shapes of the orthotropic rectangular plate with four clamped edges are presented by the double finite cosine integral transform method. In the analysis procedure, the classical orthotropic rectangular thin plate is considered. Because only are the basic dynamic elasticity equations of the orthotropic thin plate adopted, it is not need prior to select the deformation function arbitrarily. Therefore, the solution developed by this paper is reasonable and theoretical. Finally, an illustrative example is given and the results are compared with those reported earlier. This method is found to be easier and effective. The results show reasonable agreement with other available results, but with a simpler and practical approach
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