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Volume 130, Number 4, May 2020
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| Article Number | 44003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 7 | |
| Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/130/44003 | |
| Published online | 16 June 2020 | |
General trace formula for heat flux fluctuations
Institut für Physik, Carl von Ossietzky Universität - D-26111 Oldenburg, Germany
Received: 28 February 2020
Accepted: 27 May 2020
Within the framework of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics and scattering theory, we derive the general expressions for the variance of radiative heat transfer between two arbitrarily shaped objects placed in an arbitrary environment in terms of their T-operators. The such derived expression is valid in the far- and near-field regime of thermal radiation as well as for reciprocal and non-reciprocal objects of any size within a reciprocal or non-reciprocal environment as long as the distances between the objects and their sizes are covered by the macroscopic approach. As special cases we discuss the variance of the radiative heat flux between two nanoparticles and between a nanoparticle and a substrate in the near- and far-field regime.
PACS: 44.40.+a – Thermal radiation / 05.70.Ln – Nonequilibrium and irreversible thermodynamics / 05.40.-a – Fluctuation phenomena, random processes, noise, and Brownian motion
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