Near-field radiative heat transfer in many-body systems

SA Biehs, R Messina, PS Venkataram… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
Many-body physics aims to understand emergent properties of systems made of many
interacting objects. This review examines recent progress on the topic of radiative heat …

Breakdown of detailed balance for thermal radiation by synthetic fields

SA Biehs, GS Agarwal - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
In recent times the possibility of nonreciprocity in heat transfer between two bodies has been
extensively studied. In particular the role of strong magnetic fields has been investigated. A …

Nonreciprocal heat flux via synthetic fields in linear quantum systems

SA Biehs, P Rodriguez-Lopez, M Antezza, GS Agarwal - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
We study the heat transfer between N coupled quantum resonators with applied synthetic
electric and magnetic fields realized by changing the resonator parameters by external …

Coupled harmonic oscillator model to describe surface-mode mediated heat transfer

K Sasihithlu - Journal of Photonics for Energy, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
When two objects made of a material that supports surface modes are brought in close
proximity to each other such that the vacuum gap between them is less than the thermal …

Coupling Parameters for Modeling the Near-Field Heat Transfer Between Molecules

K Sasihithlu - Frontiers in Physics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The behavior of near-field heat transfer between molecules at gaps which are small
compared to wavelength of light is greatly influenced by non-radiative dipole-dipole …

The Concept of Nano Insulation Materials—Challenges, Opportunities, and Experimental Investigations

BP Jelle - … Insulation and Radiation Control Technologies for …, 2022 - Springer
The world of today is experiencing an ever-increasing interest and focus on material scarcity
and abundancy, energy efficiency and renewable and non-polluting energy harvesting. The …

A coupled harmonic oscillator model to describe the near-field radiative heat transfer between nanoparticles and planar surfaces

K Sasihithlu - arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.02548, 2018 - arxiv.org
When two objects made of a material which supports surface modes are brought in close
proximity to each other such that the vacuum gap between them is less than the thermal …