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Feynman paradox induced by vacuum and thermal fluctuations
Svend-Age Biehs, Ivan Latella
A charged particle initially at rest in an external magnetic field starts to rotate when the magnetic field is switched off. This is a variant of the Feynman disc paradox, where th…
On persistent energy currents at equilibrium in non-reciprocal systems
Svend-Age Biehs, Ivan Latella
We investigate the properties of the mean Poynting vector in global thermal equilibrium, which can be non-zero in non-reciprocal electromagnetic systems. Using dyadic Green's funct…
Radiative Corbino effect in nonreciprocal many-body systems
Ivan Latella, Philippe Ben-Abdallah
When a magnetic field is applied in the perpendicular direction to a metallic disk under the action of a radial bias voltage, a tangential electric current superimposes to the radi…
Radiative thermal rectification in many-body systems
Ivan Latella, Philippe Ben-Abdallah, Moladad Nikbakht
Radiative thermal diodes based on two-element structures rectify heat flows thanks to a temperature dependence of material optical properties. The heat transport asymmetry through…
Graphene-based autonomous pyroelectric system for near-field energy conversion
Ivan Latella, Philippe Ben-Abdallah
In the close vicinity of a hot solid, at distances smaller than the thermal wavelength, a strong electromagnetic energy density exists because of the presence of evanescent field.…
Saturation of radiative heat transfer due to many-body thermalization
Ivan Latella, Riccardo Messina, Svend-Age Biehs +2
Radiative heat transfer between two bodies saturates at very short separation distances due to the nonlocal optical response of the materials. In this work, we show that the presen…
Dynamical response of a radiative thermal transistor based on suspended insulator-metal transition membranes
Ivan Latella, Olivier Marconot, Luc Fréchette +2
We investigate the dynamical control of the heat flux exchanged in near-field regime between a membrane made with a phase-change material and a substrate when the temperature of th…
Ballistic near-field heat transport in dense many-body systems
Ivan Latella, Svend-Age Biehs, Riccardo Messina +2
Radiative heat-transport mediated by near-field interactions is known to be superdiffusive in dilute, many-body systems. In this Letter we use a generalized Landauer theory of radi…
Radiative heat transfer and nonequilibrium Casimir-Lifshitz force in many-body systems with planar geometry
Ivan Latella, Philippe Ben-Abdallah, Svend-Age Biehs +2
A general theory of photon-mediated energy and momentum transfer in N-body planar systems out of thermal equilibrium is introduced. It is based on the combination of the scattering…
Thermodynamics and energy conversion of near-field thermal radiation: maximum work and efficiency bounds
Ivan Latella, Agustín Pérez-Madrid, J. Miguel Rubi
We analyse the process of conversion of near-field thermal radiation into usable work by considering the radiation emitted between two planar sources supporting surface phonon-pola…
Heat engine driven by photon tunneling in many-body systems
Ivan Latella, Agustín Pérez-Madrid, J. Miguel Rubi +2
Near-field heat engines are devices that convert the evanescent thermal field supported by a primary source into usable mechanical energy. By analyzing the thermodynamic performanc…
Near-field thermodynamics and nanoscale energy harvesting
Ivan Latella, Agustín Pérez-Madrid, Luciano C. Lapas +1
We study the thermodynamics of near-field thermal radiation between two identical polar media at different temperatures. As an application, we consider an idealized energy harvesti…
Near-field thermodynamics: Useful work, efficiency, and energy harvesting
Ivan Latella, Agustín Pérez-Madrid, Luciano C. Lapas +1
We show that the maximum work that can be obtained from the thermal radiation emitted between two planar sources in the near-field regime is much larger than that corresponding to…