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Radiative energy and momentum transfer due to fluctuations of electromagnetic fields arising due to temperature difference between objects is described in terms of the cross-spectral densities of the electromagnetic fields. We derive…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-02-05 Arvind Narayanaswamy , Yi Zheng

In chains of closely-spaced nanoparticles supporting surface polaritons, near-field electromagnetic coupling leads to collective effects and super-Planckian thermal radiation exchange. Researchers have primarily used two analytical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-19 Eric J. Tervo , Baratunde A. Cola , Zhuomin M. Zhang

We study the radiative heat transfer between a spheroidal metallic nanoparticle and a planar metallic sample for near- and far-field distances. In particular, we investigate the shape dependence of the heat transfer in the near-field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Oliver Huth , Felix Rüting , Svend-Age Biehs , Martin Holthaus

Radiative heat transfer is of great interest from a fundamental point of view and for energy harvesting applications. This is a material dependent phenomenon where confined plasmonic excitations, hyperbolicity and other properties can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Long Ma , Dai-Nam Le , Lilia M. Woods

The non-contact heat transfer between two bodies is more efficient than the Stefan-Boltzmann law, when the distances are on the nanometer scale (shorter than Wien's wavelength), due to contributions of thermally excited near fields. This is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-06 Carsten Henkel , Paul Philip Schmidt

In this letter, we study the radiative heat transfer between two nanoparticles in the near field and in the far field. We find that the heat transfer is dominated by the electric dipole-dipole interaction for dielectric particles and by the…

The radiative properties of most structures are intimately connected to the way in which their constituents are ordered on the nano-scale. We have proposed a new representation for radiative heat transfer formalism in many-body systems. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Moladad Nikbakht

A fluctuational electrodynamics-based formalism for calculating near-field radiative heat transfer between objects of arbitrary size and shape and an infinite surface is presented. The surface interactions are treated analytically via…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Sheila Edalatpour , Mathieu Francoeur

Radiative heat transfer between parallel objects separated by deep sub-wavelength distances and subject to large thermal gradients (>100 K) could enable breakthrough technologies for electricity generation and thermal transport control.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Raphael St-Gelais , Linxiao Zhu , Shanhui Fan , Michal Lipson

Almost a century ago, Johnson and Nyquist presented evidence of fluctuating electrical current and the governing fluctuation dissipation theorem (FDT). Whether, likewise, temperature T can fluctuate is a controversial topic and has led to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-11 Bayan Karimi , Fredrik Brange , Peter Samuelsson , Jukka P. Pekola

This paper deals with an analytical modeling of heat transfers simulating a new radiation calorimeter operating in a temperature range from -50 {\deg}C to 150 {\deg}C. The aim of this modeling is the evaluation of the feasibility and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-01-11 Elysée Obame Ndong , Olivier Gallot-Lavallée , Frédéric Aitken

Many-body physics aims to understand emergent properties of systems made of many interacting objects. This article reviews recent progress on the topic of radiative heat transfer in many-body systems consisting of thermal emitters…

Radiative heat transfer between two bodies saturates at very short separation distances due to the nonlocal optical response of the materials. In this work, we show that the presence of radiative interactions with a third body or external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Ivan Latella , Riccardo Messina , Svend-Age Biehs , J. Miguel Rubi , Philippe Ben-Abdallah

We investigate the radiative heat transfer and spatial distributions of stationary temperatures in periodic many-body systems composed of alternating slabs of two different materials. We show that temperature distributions exhibit an…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-27 Ming-Jian He , Xue Guo , Hong Qi , Ivan Latella , He-Ping Tan

Charge transfer is a fundamental process that underlies a multitude of phenomena in chemistry and biology. Recent advances in observing and manipulating charge and heat transport at the nanoscale, and recently developed techniques for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-26 Galen T. Craven , Abraham Nitzan

We study the heat transfer between elastic solids with randomly rough surfaces. We include both the heat transfer from the area of real contact, and the heat transfer between the surfaces in the noncontact regions. We apply a recently…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-08-28 B. N. J. Persson , B. Lorenz , A. I. Volokitin

We study the near-field radiative heat transfer between two twisted finite-size polar dielectric nanoparticle gratings. Differently from previous studies of the same configuration, we do not rely on any approximated effective medium theory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Minggang Luo , Junming Zhao , Mauro Antezza

In this work, we present an expression for the near-field thermal radiative transfer between two spheres with an arbitrary numbers of coatings. We numerically demonstrate that the spectrum of heat transfer between layered spheres exhibits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Braden Czapla , Arvind Narayanaswamy

Heat transfer is a fundamental concept in physics, and how to characterize the microscopical physical mechanism of heat transfer is a significant topic. Recently, a new mechanism for heat transfer, phonon heat transfer across a vacuum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Yue-Hui Zhou , Jie-Qiao Liao

Radiative heat transfer between two far-field-separated nanoparticles placed close to a perfectly conducting nanowire decays logarithmically slow with the interparticle distance. This makes a cylinder an excellent waveguide which can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-27 Kiryl Asheichyk , Matthias Krüger