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

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Main Authors: Messina, Riccardo, Ben-Abdallah, Philippe
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author Messina, Riccardo
Ben-Abdallah, Philippe
author_facet Messina, Riccardo
Ben-Abdallah, Philippe
contents We develop a general theory of radiative heat exchange between dipoles with time-modulated optical properties. This framework extends fluctuational electrodynamics beyond equilibrium by incorporating nonstationary correlations and memory effects induced by temporal modulation. Closed-form expressions for the heat currents in modulated many-body systems are obtained, together with a generalized Landauer-like formulation of the pairwise exchanges, where the transmission coefficient accounts for all inelastic frequency-conversion channels. Near-resonant modulation redistributes and amplifies thermal fluctuations across Floquet sidebands, acting as a parametric amplifier of thermal radiation and enabling active, frequency-selective control of nanoscale heat transfer.
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spellingShingle Many-Body Floquet Theory for Radiative Heat Transfer in Time-Modulated Systems
Messina, Riccardo
Ben-Abdallah, Philippe
Optics
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
We develop a general theory of radiative heat exchange between dipoles with time-modulated optical properties. This framework extends fluctuational electrodynamics beyond equilibrium by incorporating nonstationary correlations and memory effects induced by temporal modulation. Closed-form expressions for the heat currents in modulated many-body systems are obtained, together with a generalized Landauer-like formulation of the pairwise exchanges, where the transmission coefficient accounts for all inelastic frequency-conversion channels. Near-resonant modulation redistributes and amplifies thermal fluctuations across Floquet sidebands, acting as a parametric amplifier of thermal radiation and enabling active, frequency-selective control of nanoscale heat transfer.
title Many-Body Floquet Theory for Radiative Heat Transfer in Time-Modulated Systems
topic Optics
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19378