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most citedThermodynamic Limits of Energy Harvesting from Outgoing Thermal Radiation

131 citations · 526 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

quant-ph2022★ 66 cited

Creating boundaries along a synthetic frequency dimension

Avik Dutt, Luqi Yuan, Ki Youl Yang +4

Synthetic dimensions have garnered widespread interest for implementing high dimensional classical and quantum dynamics on lower dimensional geometries. Synthetic frequency dimensi…

quant-ph2021★ 2 cited

Nonequilibrium Casimir effects of nonreciprocal surface waves

Chinmay Khandekar, Siddharth Buddhiraju, Paul R. Wilkinson +4

We show that an isotropic dipolar particle in the vicinity of a substrate made of nonreciprocal plasmonic materials can experience a lateral Casimir force and torque when the parti…

physics.optics2020★ 79 cited

Arbitrary linear transformations for photons in the frequency synthetic dimension

Siddharth Buddhiraju, Avik Dutt, Momchil Minkov +2

Arbitrary linear transformations are of crucial importance in a plethora of photonic applications spanning classical signal processing, communication systems, quantum information p…

physics.optics2020★ 62 cited

Nonreciprocal metamaterial obeying time-reversal symmetry

Siddharth Buddhiraju, Alex Song, Georgia T. Papadakis +1

We introduce a class of non-Hermitian systems that break electromagnetic reciprocity while preserving time-reversal symmetry, and describe its novel polarization dynamics. We show…

physics.optics2019★ 37 cited

Nonreciprocal radiative heat transfer between two planar bodies

Lingling Fan, Yu Guo, Georgia T. Papadakis +5

We develop an analytical framework for nonreciprocal radiative heat transfer in two-body planar systems. Based on our formalism, we identify effects that are uniquely nonreciprocal…

physics.optics2019★ 60 cited

Broadening near-field emission for performance enhancement in thermophotovoltaics

Georgia T. Papadakis, Siddharth Buddhiraju, Zhexin Zhao +2

The conventional notion for achieving high efficiency in thermophotovoltaics (TPVs) is to use a monochromatic emission at a photon energy corresponding to the band gap of the cell.…

physics.optics2019★ 69 cited

Photonic refrigeration from time-modulated thermal emission

Siddharth Buddhiraju, Wei Li, Shanhui Fan

Active photonic cooling is of significant importance to realize robust, compact, vibration-free, all-solid-state refrigeration. Currently proposed photonic cooling approaches are b…

physics.optics2019★ 4 cited

Overcoming the absorption limit in high-harmonic generation from crystals

Hanzhe Liu, Giulio Vampa, Jingyuan Linda Zhang +6

Since the new millennium coherent extreme ultra-violet and soft x-ray radiation has revolutionized the understanding of dynamical physical, chemical and biological systems at the e…

physics.app-ph2018

Gate-tunable near-field heat transfer

Georgia T. Papadakis, Bo Zhao, Siddharth Buddhiraju +1

Active control over the flow of heat in the near-field holds promise for nanoscale thermal management, with applications in refrigeration, thermophotovoltaics, and thermal circuitr…

physics.optics2018★ 11 cited

Absence of unidirectionally propagating surface plasmon-polaritons in nonreciprocal plasmonics

Siddharth Buddhiraju, Yu Shi, Alex Song +5

In the presence of an external magnetic field, the surface plasmon polariton that exists at the metal-dielectric interface is believed to support a unidirectional frequency range n…

physics.optics2017★ 131 cited

Thermodynamic Limits of Energy Harvesting from Outgoing Thermal Radiation

Siddharth Buddhiraju, Parthiban Santhanam, Shanhui Fan

We derive the thermodynamic limits of harvesting power from the outgoing thermal radiation from the ambient to the cold outer space. The derivations are based on a duality relation…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 2 cited

Optimal Single Quantum Dot Heat-to-pure-spin-current Converters

Siddharth Buddhiraju, Bhaskaran Muralidharan

We delve into the conditions under which a quantum dot thermoelectric setup may be tuned to realize an optimal heat-to-pure-spin-current converter. It is well known that a heat-to-…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 3 cited

Role of dual nuclear baths on spin blockade leakage current bistabilities

Siddharth Buddhiraju, Bhaskaran Muralidharan

Spin-blockaded electronic transport across a double quantum dot (DQD) system represents an important advancement in the area of spin-based quantum information. The basic mechanism…