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We demonstrate the existence of a shuttling effect for the radiative heat flux exchanged between two bodies separated by a vacuum gap when the chemical potential of photons or the temperature difference is modulated. We show that this…

Thermal diodes that enable directional heat transport are essential for advanced thermal management in microelectronics, energy systems, and thermal logic devices. However, existing designs based on phase-change materials, nanostructures,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Qinyun Ding , Yuhao Wang , Guanqing Xiong , Wei Chen , Ying Chen , Zhaoguang Wang , Arup Neogi , Jaehyung Ju

This work investigates how a thermal diode can be designed from a nematic liquid crystal confined inside a cylindrical capillary. In the case of homeotropic anchoring, a defect structure called escaped radial disclination arises. The…

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We show that the radiative heat flux between two nanoparticles can be significantly amplified when they are placed in proximity of a planar substrate supporting a surface resonance. The amplification factor goes beyond two orders of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 Riccardo Messina , Svend-Age Biehs , Philippe Ben-Abdallah

We report the design of nonreciprocal resonant transmission/reflection using a one-dimensional photonic crystal (1DPC) adjacent to the magneto-optical (MO) metal film. The nonreciprocal surface modes are found at the interface between the…

Optics · Physics 2017-07-26 Cheng He , Chang-Sheng Yuan , Ming-Hui Lu , Yan-Feng Chen , Cheng Sun

We provide convincing empirical evidence that long range interactions strongly enhance the rectification effect which takes place in mass graded systems. Even more importantly the rectification does not decrease with the increase of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-27 Shunda Chen , Emmanuel Pereira , Giulio Casati

Superconducting electronics is essential for energy-efficient quantum and classical high-end computing applications. Towards this goal, non-reciprocal superconducting circuit elements, such as superconducting diodes (SDs) can fulfill many…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-05 Josep Ingla-Aynés , Yasen Hou , Sarah Wang , En-De Chu , Oleg A. Mukhanov , Peng Wei , Jagadeesh S. Moodera

Engineering phonon transport in physical systems is a subject of interest in the study of materials and plays a crucial role in controlling energy and heat transfer. Of particular interest are non-reciprocal phononic systems, which in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Alireza Seif , Wade DeGottardi , Keivan Esfarjani , Mohammad Hafezi

We show that periodic multilayered structures allow to drastically enhance near-field radiative heat transfer between nanoparticles. In particular, when the two nanoparticles are placed on each side of the multilayered structure, at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Yong Zhang , Hong-Liang Yi , He-Ping Tan , Mauro Antezza

A thermostat senses the temperature of a physical system and switches heating or cooling devices on or off, regulating the flow of heat to maintain the system's temperature near a desired setpoint. Taking advantage of recent advances in…

In this letter, we have demonstrated the possibility to efficiently relay the radiative heat flux between two nanoparticles by opening a smooth channel for heat transfer. By coating the nanoparticles with a silica shell and modifying the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-30 Mingjian He , Hong Qi , Yatao Ren , Yijun Zhao , Mauro Antezza

We theoretically investigate the non-radiative heat transfer between two photonic crystals separated by a small gap in non-equilibrium thermal situation. We predict that the surface Bloch states coupling supported by these media can make…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-18 Philippe Ben-Abdallah , Karl Joulain , Andrey Pryamikov

Introducing new components and functionalities into quantum devices is critical in advancing state-of-the-art hardware. Here, we propose superconducting diodes (SDs) as a coherent nonreciprocal element in circuit quantum electrodynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Nicolas Dirnegger , Prineha Narang , Arpit Arora

Developing thermal analogues of field-effect transistor could open the door to a low-power and even zero-power communication technology working with heat rather than electricity. These solid-sate devices could also find many applications in…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Yuxuan Li , Yongdi Dang , Shen Zhang , Xinran Li , Yi Jin , Philippe Ben-Abdallah , Jianbin Xu , Yungui Ma

Using micromagnetic simulations, we have investigated spin dynamics in a spin-valve bi-layer in the presence of a thermal gradient. The direction and the intensity of the gradient allow to excite the spin wave modes of each layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Simone Borlenghi , Weiwei Wang , Hans Fangohr , Lars Bergqvist , Anna Delin

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

Harmonic oscillator chains connecting two harmonic reservoirs at different constant temperatures cannot act as thermal diodes, irrespective of structural asymmetry. However, here we prove that perfectly harmonic junctions can rectify heat…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Na'im Kalantar , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Dvira Segal

By means of fluctuationnal electrodynamics, we calculate radiative heat flux between two pla-nar materials respectively made of SiC and SiO2. More specifically, we focus on a first (direct) situation where one of the two materials (for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Karl Joulain , Younes Ezzahri , Jérémie Drevillon , Benoit Rousseau , Domingos De Sousa Meneses

In this Letter, we show numerically that the rectifying effect of heat flux in a one-dimensional two-segment Frenkel-Kontorova chain demonstrated in recent literature is merely available under the limit of the weak coupling between the two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-26 Bambi Hu , Lei Yang , Yong Zhang

Optical non-reciprocity is a fundamental phenomenon in photonics. It is crucial for developing devices that rely on directional signal control, such as optical isolators and circulators. However, most research in this field has focused on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Yunlong Xue , Zhengyang Bai