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Planck's law of thermal radiation depends on the temperature, $T$, and the emissivity, $\epsilon$, of a body, where emissivity is the coupling of heat to radiation that depends on both phonon-electron nonradiative interactions and…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-21 M. Kurtulik , M. Shimanovic , T. Bar Lev , R. Weill , A. Manor , M. Shustov , C. Rotschild

Thermal emission can be conveniently described using Kirchhoff law which states that the emissivity is equal to the absorptivity for isothermal bodies. For a finite size system, absorptivity is replaced by an absorption cross section. Here,…

The Kirchhoff`s law of thermal radiation stating the equivalence of emissivity and absorptivity at the same wavelength, angle, and polarization, has completely constrained emission and absorption processes. Achieving strong nonreciprocal…

In this paper, using the viewpoint that quantum mechanics can be constructed as a classical field theory without any quantization I build a fully classical theory of thermal radiation. Planck's law for the spectral energy density of thermal…

General Physics · Physics 2016-04-19 Sergey A. Rashkovskiy

Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation imposes a constraint on photon-based energy harvesting processes since part of the incident energy flux is inevitably emitted back to the source. By breaking the reciprocity of the system, it is possible…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-19 Yubin Park , Viktar S. Asadchy , Bo Zhao , Cheng Guo , Jiahui Wang , Shanhui Fan

The radiance of thermal emission, as described by Plancks law, depends only on the emissivity and temperature of a body, and increases monotonically with temperature rise at any emitted wavelength. Nonthermal radiation, such as…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-01 Assaf Manor , Matej Kurtulik , Carmel Rotschild

Thermal radiation is strictly governed by Kirchhoff s law to reach thermal equilibrium. The violation of Kirchhoff s law decouples nonreciprocally the equity between absorptivity and emissivity, enabling exotic thermal engineering…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-11 R. Ma , Y. Yu , Y. Sun , H. Yan , W. Wan

Photoluminescence (PL) is a light-matter quantum interaction associated with the chemical potential of light formulated by the Generalized Planck's law. Without knowing the inherent temperature dependence of chemical potential, the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Matej Kurtulik , Rafi Weill , Assaf Manor , Carmel Rotschild

Through the formulation of his law of thermal emission, Kirchhoff conferred upon blackbody radiation the quality of universality [G.Kirchhoff, Annalen der Physik 109, 275 (1860)]. Consequently, modern physics holds that such radiation is…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pierre-Marie Robitaille

The Kirchhoff law of thermal radiation, relating emissivity {\epsilon} and absorptance {\alpha}, has been originally formulated for opaque bodies in thermodynamic equilibrium with the environment. However, in many systems of practical…

Spectral/angular emissivity $e$ and absorptivity ${\alpha}$ of an object are widely believed to be identical by Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation in reciprocal systems, but this introduces an intrinsic and inevitable energy loss for…

Optics · Physics 2023-09-14 Mengqi Liu , Shuang Xia , Wenjian Wan , Jun Qin , Hua Li , Changying Zhao , Lei Bi , Cheng-Wei Qiu

Quantum thermodynamics aims to explore quantum features to enhance energy conversion beyond classical limits. While significant progress has been made, the understanding of caloric potentials in quantum systems remains incomplete. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-27 Clebson Cruz , J. S. Amaral , Mario Reis

The radiance of thermal emission, as described by Planck law, depends only on the emissivity and temperature of a body, and increases monotonically with the temperature rise at any emitted wavelength. Nonthermal radiation, such as…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-23 N Kruger , M Kurtulik , N Revivo , A Manor , T Sabapathy , C Rotschild

Photoluminescence (PL) is a fundamental light-matter interaction in which absorbed photons are re-emitted, playing a key role in science and engineering. It is commonly modeled by introducing a non-zero chemical potential into Planck's law…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-22 Tomer Bar Lev , Carmel Rotschild

Kirchhoff's law provides a relation between the incident fields a structure can absorb and those it thermally emits. It is generally formulated as a relation between the angle-dependent emissivity and absorptivity of a structure. In this…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-06-13 D. Tihon , S. Withington

One of the principal objectives of quantum thermodynamics is to explore quantum effects and their potential beneficial role in thermodynamic tasks like work extraction or refrigeration. So far, even though several papers have already shown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-22 C. L. Latune , I. Sinayskiy , F. Petruccione

It has been advanced, on experimental (P.-M. Robitaille, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 2003, v. 31(6), 1263-1267) and theoretical (P.M. Robitaille, Progr. Phys. 2006, v.2, 22-23) grounds, that blackbody radiation is not universal and remains…

General Physics · Physics 2008-05-13 Pierre-Marie Robitaille

The Kelvin-Planck statement of the Second Law of Thermodynamics is a stricture on the nature of heat receipt by any body suffering a cyclic process. It makes no mention of temperature or of entropy. Beginning with a Kelvin-Planck statement…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-08-28 Martin Feinberg , Richard B. Lavine

The heat dissipation in quantum metrology represents not only an unavoidable problem towards practical applications of quantum sensing devices but also a fundamental relationship between thermodynamics and quantum metrology. However, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-02 Yaoming Chu , Jianming Cai

We study a quantum thermal engine model for which the heat transfer law is determined by Einstein's theory of radiation. The working substance of the quantum engine is assumed to be a two-level quantum systems of which the constituent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-11-30 H. Yan , Hao Guo
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