Generalized Fourier's law in mesoscopic systems

Fourier’s law fails when the mean free path of the energy carriers becomes comparable to the length and time scales over which the temperature field varies. We derive a thermodynamically consistent generalization in which the conductivity is promoted to a nonlocal memory operator $\bm{\kappa}_{\math…

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