2013/06/20 by Riccardo Messina, Maria Tschikin, Svend‐Age Biehs +3 · 4 citations
Engineering · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Classical mechanics #Computational physics #Dipole #Dynamics (music) #Field (mathematics) #Heat transfer #Mathematics #Mechanics #Optical properties and cooling technologies in crystalline materials #Optics #Physics #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Quantum mechanics #Radiative transfer #Relaxation (psychology) #Scale (ratio) #Statistical physics #Thermal #Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies #Thermal radiation #Thermodynamics #Wavelength #cond-mat.mes-hall #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.88.104307
published as Phys. Rev. B 88, 104307 (2013) · 12 pages, 3 figures
arxiv created 2013/06/20 · openalex publication_date 2013/09/30 · arxiv updated 2015/06/16 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
A general fluctuation-electrodynamic theory is developed to investigate radiative heat exchanges between objects that are assumed to be 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 or cooling of three-body systems. We show that many-body interactions allow us to tailor the temperature field distribution and to drastically change the time scale of thermal relaxation processes.