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Thermal management is essential for efficient semiconductor-based quantum systems. In this chapter, we discuss fundamental principles of heat conduction engineering via wave properties of phonons and review recent advances in this field. In phononic crystals—acoustic analogs of photonic crystals—phonons that remain coherent upon scattering on periodic boundaries can experience wave interference. In turn, the interference changes phonon dispersion relation and thus affects the thermal properties of the structure. In the past few years, researchers theoretically demonstrated that phononic crystal nanostructures could suppress or enhance heat conduction depending on the design of the structure. However, experiments could demonstrate such coherent control of thermal conductance only either at low temperatures or in superlattices with the periodicity and roughness at atomic scale. Thus, we discuss the advantages and limitations of coherent control of heat conduction, as well as possible strategies to overcome these limits in the future.
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Anufriev, R., Nomura, M. (2022). Phonon Engineering for Quantum Hybrid Systems. In: Hirayama, Y., Hirakawa, K., Yamaguchi, H. (eds) Quantum Hybrid Electronics and Materials. Quantum Science and Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1201-6_2
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