https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202226607001
Thermal radiation in dipolar many-body systems
Instut für Physik, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany
* e-mail: s.age.biehs@uol.de
Published online: 13 October 2022
The framework of fluctuational electrodynamics for dipolar many-body systems is one of the working horse for theoretical studies of thermal radiation at the nanoscale which includes dissipation and retardation in a naturally way. Based on this framework I will discuss near-field thermal radiation in non-reciprocal and topological many-body systems. The appearance of the Hall and non-reciprocal diode effect for thermal radiation illustrates nicely the interesting physics in such systems as well as the edge mode dominated heat transfer in topological Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chains and a honeycomb lattices of plasmonic nanoparticles. In the latter, the theory allows for quantifying the effciency of the edge-mode dominated heat transfer as function of the dissipation. Finally, I will present how the theoretical framework can be generalized to study far-field thermal emission of many-body systems close to an environment like a substrate, for instance. This theory might be particularly interesting for modelling thermal imaging microscopes.
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