Violation of the Wiedemann-Franz law in coupled thermal and power transport of optical waveguide arrays

TL;DR

This paper predicts a violation of the Wiedemann-Franz law in nonlinear optical waveguide arrays due to spectral decoupling of thermal and power currents, extending transport studies into novel regimes.

Contribution

It introduces the concept of coupled thermal and particle transport in optical waveguides and demonstrates the violation of Wiedemann-Franz law through numerical simulations and theoretical analysis.

Findings

Violation of Wiedemann-Franz law predicted

Spectral decoupling causes different temperature dependence

Extends transport studies to optical systems

Abstract

In isolated nonlinear optical waveguide arrays with bounded energy spectrum, simultaneous conservation of energy and power of the optical modes enables study of coupled thermal and particle transport in the negative temperature regime. Here, based on exact numerical simulation and rationale from Landauer formalism, we predict generic violation of the Wiedemann-Franz law in such systems. This is rooted in the spectral decoupling of thermal and power current of optical modes, and their different temperature dependence. Our work extends the study of coupled thermal and particle transport into unprecedented regimes, not reachable in natural condensed matter and atomic gas systems.