Dvira Segal
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Toronto


PUBLICATIONS

  • S. Garmon, T. Petrosky, L. Simine, and D. Segal
    Amplification of non-Markovian decay due to bound state absorption into continuum
    Progress of Physics, submitted.
    arXiv:1204.6141

  • L. Simine and D. Segal
    Vibrational cooling, heating, and instability in molecular conducting junctions: Full counting statistics analysis
    arXiv:1203.3910 PCCP submitted

  • S. Garmon, I. Rotter, N. Hatano, and D. Segal
    Analysis technique for exceptional pointes in open quantum systems and QPT analogy for the appearance of irreversibility
    arXiv:1107.1759 arXiv
    Submitted to PRL

  • S. Bedkihal and D. Segal
    Dynamics of coherences in the interacting double-dot Aharonov-Bohm interferometer: Exact numerical simulations
    arXiv:1201.2876 arXiv
    Phys. Rev. B 85, 155324 (2012) pdf


  • C. X. Yu, L.-A. Wu, and D. Segal
    Theory of quantum energy transfer in spin chains: From superexchange to ballistic motion
    arXiv:1107.4334 arXiv
    JCP 135, 234508 (2011). pdf

  • L. Nicolin and D. Segal
    Quantum fluctuation theorem for heat exchange in the strong coupling regime
    arXiv:1106.0353, arXiv
    Phys. Rev. B, 84, 161414 (2011) pdf

  • L. Nicolin and D. Segal
    Non-equilibrium spin-boson model: counting statistics and the heat exchange fluctuation theorem
    arXiv:1108.3750 arXiv
    JCP 135, 164106 (2011). pdf


  • M. Bandyopadhyay and D. Segal
    Quantum heat transfer in harmonic chains with self consistent reservoirs: Exact numerical simulations arXiv
    Phys. Rev. E 84, 011151 (2011) pdf


  • L.-A. Wu and D. Segal,
    Quantum effects in thermal conduction: Nonequilibrium quantum discord and entanglement
    Phys. Rev. A 84, 012319 (2011) pdf
    arXiv

  • D. Segal, A. J. Millis, and D. R. Reichman,
    Nonequilibrium transport in quantum impurity models: Exact path integral simulations
    PCCP 13, 14378 (2011). pdf
    arXiv:1103.1867v1 arXiv

  • M. Bandyopadhyay, S. Gupta and D. Segal
    DNA breathing dynamics: Analytic results for distribution functions of relevant Brownian functionals
    Phys. Rev. E 83 0313905 (2011); arXiv 1012.0770 pdf

  • L.-A. Wu and D. Segal,
    Quantum heat transfer: A Born-Oppenheimer method
    Phys. Rev. E 83, 051114 (2011); arXiv:1009.2039 pdf


  • D. Segal, A. J. Millis, and D. R. Reichman,
    Numerically exact path integral simulation of nonequilibrium quantum transport and dissipation
    Phys. Rev. B 82, 205323 (2010)
    Editors' Suggestion pdf

  • Y. Zhou and D. Segal
    Interface effects in thermal conduction through molecular junctions: Numerical simulations
    JCP 133 094101 (2010). pdf

  • Y. Zhou and D. Segal
    Minimal model of a heat engine: An information theory approach
    Phys. Rev. E 82, 011120 (2010) pdf

  • L.-A. Wu, D. Segal, Inigo L. Egusquiza, and P. Brumer
    Universality in exact quantum state population dynamics and control
    Phys. Rev. A, 82, 032307 (2010). pdf

  • L. Nicolin and D. Segal
    Thermal conductance of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chains: Atomic to mesoscopic transition
    Phys. Rev. E 81, 040102 (2010) (Rapid) pdf

  • C. X. Yu, L.-A. Wu, and D. Segal
    Symmetry properties of the heat current in non-ballistic asymmetric junctions: A case study
    Phys. Lett. A 374, 765 (2010). pdf


  • L.-A. Wu, C. X. Yu, and D. Segal
    Nonlinear quantum heat transfer in hybrid strucrures: Sufficient conditions for thermal rectification. pdf
    PRE 80, 041103 (2009).

  • L.-A. Wu, S. S. Wu, and D. Segal
    Looking into DNA breathing dynamics via quantum physics
    arXiv:0902.3850. pdf
    Phys Rev. E 79, 061901 (2009).

  • L.-A. Wu and D. Segal,
    Sufficient conditions for thermal rectification in hybrid quantum structures
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 095503 (2009). pdf

  • D. Segal,
    Vibrational relaxation in the Kubo oscillator: Stochastic pumping of heat
    J. chem. Phys. 130, 134510 (2009). pdf


  • D. Segal,
    Absence of thermal rectification in asymmetric harmonic chains with self consistent reservoirs: An exact analysis.
    Phys. Rev. E 79, 012103 (2009). pdf


  • L.-A. Wu and D. Segal,
    Energy flux operator, current conservation and the formal Fourier's law,
    J. Phys. A: Math. and Theo. 42, 025302 (2009). pdf


  • D. Segal,
    Stochastic pumping of heat: Approaching the Carnot efficiency,
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 260601 (2008). pdf


  • D. Segal,
    Thermal conduction in molecular chains: Non-Markovian effects,
    J. Chem. Phys. 128, 224710 (2008). pdf

  • D. Segal,
    "Single mode heat rectifier: Controlling energy flow between electronic conductors",
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 105901 (2008) pdf

  • L.-A. Wu and D. Segal,
    " Fourier's law of heat conduction: Quantum mechanical master equation analysis ",
    Phys. Rev. E 77, 060101(R) (2008). pdf

  • D. Segal,
    "Nonlinear thermal control in an N-terminal junction ",
    Phys. Rev. E 77, 021103 (2008). pdf


  • D. Segal, D. R. Reichman and A.J. Millis,
    "Nonequilibrium quantum dissipation in spin-fermion systems ",
    Phys. Rev. B 76, 195316 (2007). pdf

  • D. Segal, D. R. Reichman,
    "Zeno and anti-Zeno dynamics in spin-bath models",
    Phys. Rev. A 76, 012109 (2007). pdf

  • D. Segal,
    "Heat flow in nonlinear molecular junctions: Master equation analysis ",
    Phys. Rev. B, 73, 205415 (2006). pdf

  • D. Segal, A. Nitzan,
    "Molecular heat pump",
    Phys. Rev. E.  73, 026109 (2006). pdf

  • D. Segal, M. Shapiro,
    "Trapping of a single electron in a nanoscale Paul trap",
    Nano Lett.  6, 1622 (2006). pdf

  • D. Segal, B. E Granger, H. Sadeghpour, P. Kral, M. Shapiro,
    "Formation of tunable bands of electronic image potential states in nanowire lattices",
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 94,  016402 (2005). pdf

  • D. Segal, A. Nitzan,
    "Spin-boson thermal rectifier",
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 034301 (2005). pdf

  • D. Segal,
    "Thermoelectric effect in molecular junctions: A tool for revealing transport mechanisms",
    Phys. Rev. B, 72, 165426 (2005). pdf

  • D. Segal, P. Kral, M. Shapiro,
    " Shaping of detached image states above suspended nanowires ",
    Phys. Rev. B (2004). pdf

  • D. Segal, A. Nitzan, P. Hanggi,
    " Thermal conductance through molecular wires ",
    J. Chem. Phys. 119 6840 (2003). pdf

  • D. Segal and A. Nitzan,
    Heating in current carrying molecular junctions, J. Chem. Phys. 117, 3915-3927 (2002).

  • D. Segal, A. Nitzan, M. Ratner, and W. B. Davis,
    Activated conduction in microscopic molecular junctions, J. Phys. Chem. B. 104, 2790-2793 (2000).

  • D. Segal, A. Nitzan, W. B. Davis, M. R. Wasielewsky, and M. A. Ratner,
    Electron transfer rates in bridged molecular systems: A steady state analysis of coherent tunneling and thermal transitions,
    J. Phys. Chem. B. 104, 3817-3829 (2000).