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Bennett grew up in Seattle, Washington, and received his BS in physics from Rice University in 2025. Working as an undergraduate in Dr. Thomas Killian’s Lab, Bennett studied shockwave dynamics in ultracold plasmas and synthetic dimension quantum simulators.
Heat transport is driven by a thermal gradient, flowing from hot to cold regions in a material. However, at dimensions <100nm, bulk models no longer accurately predict the transport properties of materials. Because no complete models of nanoscale heat transport were available, it was assumed instead that bulk-like diffusive heat transport was valid—provided that an effective parameter, such as a size-dependent thermal conductivity, was incorporated.