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9 papers

physics.optics2026

Near-field Dressing of Thermal Emission

Victor Guillemot, Raphael Mol, Riccardo Messina +4

Radiative heat transfer at subwavelength distances is generally understood as enhanced energy exchange mediated by photon tunnelling between neighboring bodies. While near-field in…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Breakdown of Fluctuational Electrodynamics in the Extreme Near Field

Philippe Ben-Abdallah

Fluctuational electrodynamics relies on the assumption that thermal fluctuations in distinct bodies are statistically independent. It is shown that this approximation breaks down i…

physics.class-ph2026

Mpemba Effect in Many-Body Systems Near Equilibrium

Philippe Ben-Abdallah

The Mpemba effect, in which a system initially farther from equilibrium relaxes faster than a closer one, has been observed in a wide variety of linear and nonlinear systems. Here…

physics.optics2026

Superballistic transport of thermal photons in confined many-body systems

Jian Dong, Junming Zhao, Philippe Ben-Abdallah +1

Ballistic transport, realized when the system size is smaller than the mean free path of energy carriers, is traditionally regarded as the ultimate limit for energy transfer. Here,…

physics.optics2026

Interference-Controlled Radiative Heat Transport in Time-Modulated Networks

Philippe Ben-Abdallah

We demonstrate photonic control of radiative heat transport in nanoscale networks through phase-controlled interference between elastic and inelastic Floquet scattering channels in…

physics.optics2025

Many-Body Floquet Theory for Radiative Heat Transfer in Time-Modulated Systems

Riccardo Messina, Philippe Ben-Abdallah

We develop a general theory of radiative heat exchange between dipoles with time-modulated optical properties. This framework extends fluctuational electrodynamics beyond equilibri…