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We study the interplay of conductive and radiative heat transfer (RHT) in planar geometries and predict that temperature gradients induced by radiation can play a significant role on the behavior of RHT with respect to gap sizes, depending…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Riccardo Messina , Weiliang Jin , Alejandro W. Rodriguez

We investigate the dynamical control of the heat flux exchanged in near-field regime between a membrane made with a phase-change material and a substrate when the temperature of the membrane is tuned around its critical value. We show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 Ivan Latella , Olivier Marconot , Luc Fréchette , Julien Sylvestre , Philippe Ben-Abdallah

The dynamic heat transfer between two half-spaces separated by a vacuum gap due to coupling of their surface modes is modelled using the theory that describes the dynamic energy transfer between two coupled harmonic oscillators each…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 Karthik Sasihithlu , Girish Agarwal

The effects of radiative energy exchange on the convective instability of a weak field magnetic structure, which lead to a prediction and a physical explanation of the magnetic flux dependent field strength, are examined in detail using a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Rajaguru , Siraj S. Hasan

We show that the radiative heat transfer between two solid surfaces at short separation may increase by many order of magnitude when the surfaces are covered by adsorbates. In this case the heat transfer is determined by resonant photon…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 A. I. Volokitin , B. N. J. Persson

Here, we develop a theory of radiative heat transfer based on an equivalent electrical network representation for the hot material slabs in an arbitrary multilayered environment with arbitrary distribution of temperatures and…

Time modulation opens new avenues for light, heat control, and energy harvesting, yet the impact of nonequilibrium dynamics of microscopic particles remains largely unexplored. We develop a microscopic theory to describe radiative heat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Hui Pan , Yuhua Ren , Gaomin Tang , Jian-Sheng Wang

We theoretically study the thermal relaxation of many-body systems under the action of oscillating external fields. When the magnitude or the orientation of a field is modulated around values where the pairwise heat-exchange conductances…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Riccardo Messina , Annika Ott , Christoph Kathmann , Svend-Age Biehs , Philippe Ben-Abdallah

We study radiative heat transfer between two nanoemitters placed inside different types of closed cavities by means of a fluctuational-electrodynamics approach. We highlight a very sharp dependence of this transfer on cavity width, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-04 Kiryl Asheichyk , Philippe Ben-Abdallah , Matthias Krüger , Riccardo Messina

We study the photon thermal Hall effect and the persistent heat current in radiative heat transfer. We show that the photon thermal Hall effect is not a uniquely nonreciprocal effect; it can arise in some reciprocal systems with broken…

Optics · Physics 2019-11-21 Cheng Guo , Yu Guo , Shanhui Fan

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

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…

We analyze the heat transfer between two metals separated by a vacuum gap in the extreme near-field regime. In this cross-over regime between conduction and radiation, heat exchanges are mediated by photon, phonon and electron tunneling. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 Mauricio Gómez Viloria , Yangyu Guo , Samy Merabia , Philippe Ben-Abdallah , Riccardo Messina

Near-field heat radiation and transfer are rich in various exciting effects, in particular, regarding the amplification due to the geometrical configuration of the system. In this paper, we study heat exchange in situations where the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-05 Kiryl Asheichyk , Matthias Krüger

When two solids at different temperatures are separated by a vacuum gap they relax toward their equilibrium state by exchanging heat either by radiation, phonon or electron tunneling, depending on their separation distance and on the nature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Marta Reina , Riccardo Messina , Philippe Ben-Abdallah

Heat transfer properties in non-reciprocal systems are discussed. An ideal experiment employing microwave or optical isolators is considered in order to investigate the possibility for a spontaneous transfer of energy between two black…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alejandro Cabo

Within the framework of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics and scattering theory, we derive the general expressions for the variance of radiative heat transfer between two arbitrarily shaped objects placed in an arbitrary environment in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 F. Herz , C. Kathmann , S. -A. Biehs

Near-field radiative heat transfer allows heat to propagate across a small vacuum gap in quantities that are several orders of magnitude greater then the heat transfer by far-field, blackbody radiation. Although heat transfer via near-field…

We study the radiative heat transfer and the Casimir-Lifshitz force occurring between two bodies in a system out of thermal equilibrium. We consider bodies of arbitrary shape and dielectric properties, held at two different temperatures,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Riccardo Messina , Mauro Antezza

Thermal runaway occurs when a rise in system temperature results in heat generation rates exceeding dissipation rates. Here we demonstrate that thermal runaway occurs in thermal radiative systems, given a sufficient level of negative…