Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

The Royal Society’s physical sciences research journal, publishing high-quality research and review articles from all disciplines in the physical sciences

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial, &amp;amp;#x26;amp;#x26;quot;sans-serif&amp;amp;#x26;amp;#x26;quot;; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Thermal transport in a crystal is driven by a mixture of incoherent (diffusive) and coherent (wave) effects. By intrinsically introducing local phonon resonances within a crystal, the rate of entropy production and evolution towards equilibrium are severely inhibited‒demonstrating an inherent competition between thermodynamics and wave dynamics. See the article “Entropic signature of resonant thermal transport: Ordered form of heat conduction” by Albert Beardo, Prajit Rawte, Chia-Nien Tsai, and Mahmoud I. Hussein, published in</span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> <i>Proc. R. Soc. A</i></span> (<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2024-0538" target="_blank" title="https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2024-0538" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" style="font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-emoji: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&amp;amp;#x26;amp;#x26;quot;Arial&amp;amp;#x26;amp;#x26;quot;,&amp;amp;#x26;amp;#x26;quot;sans-serif&amp;amp;#x26;amp;#x26;quot;;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm">https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2024.0538</span></a></span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">).</span></p>

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Proceedings A publishes articles across the chemical, computational, Earth, engineering, mathematical, and physical sciences. The journal publishes research papers, as well as short reviews containing original and interesting new ideas. The articles published are high-quality, original, fundamental articles of interest to a wide range of scientists, and often have long citation half-lives. As well as established disciplines, we encourage emerging and interdisciplinary areas.

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