TY - JOUR
T1 - Theory of many-body radiative heat transfer without the constraint of reciprocity
AU - Zhu, Linxiao
AU - Guo, Yu
AU - Fan, Shanhui
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the DOE “Light-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion” Energy Frontier Research Center under Grant No. DE-SC0001293.
PY - 2018/3/7
Y1 - 2018/3/7
N2 - Using a self-consistent scattered field approach based on fluctuational electrodynamics, we develop compact formulas for radiative heat transfer in many-body systems without the constraint of reciprocity. The formulas allow for efficient numerical calculation for a system consisting of a large number of bodies, and are in principle exact. As a demonstration, for a nonreciprocal many-body system, we investigate persistent heat current at thermal equilibrium and directional heat transfer when the system is away from thermal equilibrium.
AB - Using a self-consistent scattered field approach based on fluctuational electrodynamics, we develop compact formulas for radiative heat transfer in many-body systems without the constraint of reciprocity. The formulas allow for efficient numerical calculation for a system consisting of a large number of bodies, and are in principle exact. As a demonstration, for a nonreciprocal many-body system, we investigate persistent heat current at thermal equilibrium and directional heat transfer when the system is away from thermal equilibrium.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevB.97.094302
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.97.094302
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85043985217
VL - 97
JO - Physical Review B-Condensed Matter
JF - Physical Review B-Condensed Matter
SN - 2469-9950
IS - 9
M1 - 094302
ER -