Heat radiation and transfer in confinement

Abstract

Near-field heat radiation and transfer are rich in various exciting effects, in particular, regarding the amplification due to the geometrical configuration of the system. In this paper, we study heat exchange in situations where the objects are confined by additional objects so that the dimensionality of heat flow is reduced. In particular, we compute the heat transfer for spherical point particles placed between two parallel plates. The presence of the plates can enhance or reduce the transfer compared to the free case and provides a slower power-law decay for large distance. We also compute the heat radiation of a sphere placed inside a spherical cavity, finding that it can be larger or smaller compared to the radiation of a free sphere. This radiation shows strong resonances as a function of the cavity's size. For example, the cooling rate of a nanosphere placed in a cavity varies by a factor of $10^5$ between cavity radii $2\mu \mathrm{m}$ and $5\mu \mathrm{m}$.

arXiv comment8 pages, 7 figures (v2: discussion about different heat flow contributions was added, temperatures were added to the figures describing configurations; Fig. 3 was added; discussions related to validity of the point particle approximation were updated; meters were replaced with micrometers in figures and text; minor changes in text)

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