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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen

TT 58: Focus Session on 2D Materials: Ballistic Quantum Transport in Graphene (jointly with DY, DS, HL, MA, O)

TT 58.6: Talk

Thursday, March 23, 2017, 12:15–12:30, HSZ 03

Ballistic thermophoresis on graphene — •Emanuele Panizon1, Roberto Guerra1,2, and Erio Tosatti1,2,31SISSA, Trieste, Italy — 2CNR-IOM Democritos, Trieste, Italy — 3ICTP, Trieste, Italy

The textbook thermophoretic force acting on a diffusing body in a fluid is proportional to the local temperature gradient. This is not the case for a diffusing physisorbed body on a submicron sized 2D suspended layer. A Non-Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics study of a test nanosystem - a gold nanocluster adsorbed on a single graphene sheet of length L clamped between two temperatures Δ T apart - reveals a phoretic force that is parallel to, but essentially independent of, the gradient magnitude Δ T/L up to a substantial L of 150nm.

This is argued to represent ballistic thermophoresis, where the force is provided by the flux of massively excited flexural phonons, whose flow is in turn known to be ballistic and distance-independent up to relatively long scattering lengths before the eventual onset of the more standard diffusive regime. The surprising thrust and real momentum provided by the flexural modes are analysed and understood in terms of the large mass non/uniformity involved with these modes. The ensuing surf-riding of adsorbates on the vibrating 2D hard sheet, and the resulting gradient independent thermophoretic force, are not unlikely to possess practical applications.

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