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Waveguides subject to spatiotemporal modulations are known to exhibit nonreciprocal vibration transmission, whereby interchanging the locations of the source and receiver change the end-to-end transmission characteristics. The scenario of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Jiuda Wu , Behrooz Yousefzadeh

We study the diffusive limit approximation for a nonlinear radiative heat transfer system that arises in the modeling of glass cooling, greenhouse effects and in astrophysics. The model is considered with the reflective radiative boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Mohamed Ghattassi , Xiaokai Huo , Nader Masmoudi

The non-hermitian quantum dynamics of excitonic energy transfer in photosynthetic systems is investigated using a dissipative two-level dimer model. The approach is based on the Green's function formalism which permits consideration of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-03 A. Thilagam

The theoretical study of many-body effects in the context of near-field radiative heat transfer (NFRHT) has already led to the prediction of a plethora of thermal radiation phenomena. Special attention has been paid to nonreciprocal systems…

Optics · Physics 2023-01-11 E. Moncada-Villa , J. C. Cuevas

We present a microscopic open quantum systems theory of thermally-damped vortex motion in oblate atomic superfluids that includes previously neglected energy-damping interactions between superfluid and thermal atoms. This mechanism couples…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-04-20 Zain Mehdi , Joseph J. Hope , Stuart S. Szigeti , Ashton S. Bradley

Transverse thermophotovoltaics has been conceptually proposed as a paradigm distinct from conventional junction-based photovoltaics, but has so far lacked a theoretical foundation. In this Letter, we establish a microscopic formalism of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Dingwei He , Gaomin Tang

This paper is devoted to the diffusive limit of the nonlinear radiative heat transfer system with curved boundary domain (\textit{two dimensional disk}). The solution constructed in \cite{ghattassi2022convergence} by the leading order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Mohamed Ghattassi , Xiaokai Huo , Nader Masmoudi

Geometric phases in particle diffusion systems, an intriguing aspect enlightened from thermal systems, offer a different understanding beyond traditional Brownian motion and Fick's laws. This concept introduces a phase factor with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-07 Jinrong Liu , Liujun Xu , Gaole Dai , Gang Wang

A generalized fluctuational electrodynamics-based many-body approach for calculating near-field radiative heat transfer (NFRHT) between nonspherical dipoles is proposed. The geometric parameters of nonspherical dipoles are implemented in…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Lindsay P. Walter , Mathieu Francoeur

The dependence on chopper frequency of the effective thermal diffusivity and effective thermal conductivity in photoacoustic experiments is discussed. The theoretical model of a two-layer structure at rear-surface illumination in the high…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Yu. G. Gurevich , G. N. Logvinov , N. Munoz-Aguirre , L. Martinez-Perez

This study introduces a novel method to break wave transmission reciprocity by leveraging the synchronization of self-oscillators. An experimental demonstration with aeroacoustic cavities is presented. They behave as weakly nonlinear limit…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 Alexander K. Stoychev , Ulrich Kuhl , Nicolas Noiray

We describe the mathematical theory of diffusion and heat transport with a view to including some of the main directions of recent research. The linear heat equation is the basic mathematical model that has been thoroughly studied in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-27 Juan Luis Vázquez

The correspondence principle is investigated in the framework of deterministic predictions for individual systems. Exact analytical results are obtained for the quantum and the Liouvillian dynamics of a nonlinear oscillator coupled to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-11-26 Renato M. Angelo

Heterogeneous diffusion processes occur in many different fields such as transport in living cells or diffusion in porous media. A characterization of the transport parameters of such processes can be achieved by ensemble-based methods,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-10-17 Michael Bauer , Rustem Valiullin , Günter Radons , Jörg Kärger

The fluctuation-dissipation relation (FDR) links thermal fluctuations and dissipation at thermal equilibrium through temperature. Extending it beyond equilibrium conditions in pursuit of broadening thermodynamics is often feasible, albeit…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-04 Dima Boriskovsky , Benjamin Lindner , Yael Roichman

Accurate and efficient wavefield modeling underpins seismic structure and source studies. Traditional methods comply with physical laws but are computationally intensive. Data-driven methods, while opening new avenues for advancement, have…

We theoretically and numerically investigate the transport of active colloids to target regions, delimited by asymmetric energy barriers. We show that it is possible to introduce a generalized effective temperature that is related to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-30 N. Koumakis , C. Maggi , R. Di Leonardo

We study scattering of a periodic wave in a string on two lumped oscillators attached to it. The equations can be represented as a driven (by the incident wave) dissipative (due to radiation losses) system of delay differential equations of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-10-30 Stefano Lepri , Arkady Pikovsky

Suppression of wave scattering and the realization of transparency effects in engineered optical media and surfaces have attracted great attention in the past recent years. In this work the problem of transparency is considered for optical…

Optics · Physics 2016-05-04 Stefano Longhi

We consider a diffusion process on an evolving surface with a piecewise Lipschitz-continuous boundary from an energetic point of view. We employ an energetic variational approach with both surface divergence and transport theorems to derive…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-19 Hajime Koba