Friday, June 21, 2013

1306.4824 (Riccardo Messina et al.)

Fluctuational-electrodynamic theory and dynamics of heat transfer in
multiple dipolar systems
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Riccardo Messina, Maria Tschikin, Svend-Age Biehs, Philippe Ben-Abdallah
A general fluctuational-electrodynamic theory is developed to investigate radiative heat exchanges between objects which are assumed small compared with their thermal wavelength (dipolar approximation) in N-body systems immersed in a thermal bath. This theoretical framework is applied to study the dynamic of heating/cooling of three-body systems. We show that many-body interactions allow to tailor the temperature field distribution and to drastically change the time scale of thermal relaxation processes.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.4824

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