A mesoscopic description of radiative heat transfer at the nanoscale
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2015-05-27 v1 Quantum Physics
Abstract
We present a formulation of the nanoscale radiative heat transfer (RHT) using concepts of mesoscopic physics. We introduce the analog of the Sharvin conductance using the quantum of thermal conductance. The formalism provides a convenient framework to analyse the physics of RHT at the nanoscale. Finally, we propose a RHT experiment in the regime of quantized conductance.
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@article{arxiv.1103.2364,
title = {A mesoscopic description of radiative heat transfer at the nanoscale},
author = {Svend-Age Biehs and Emmanuel Rousseau and Jean-Jacques Greffet},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.2364},
year = {2015}
}