%0 Journal Article
%T Fluctuational-electrodynamic theory and dynamics of heat transfer in multiple dipolar systems
%A Riccardo Messina
%A Maria Tschikin
%A Svend-Age Biehs
%A Philippe Ben-Abdallah
%J Physics
%D 2013
%I arXiv
%R 10.1103/PhysRevB.88.104307
%X A general fluctuational-electrodynamic theory is developed to investigate radiative heat exchanges between objects which are assumed small compared with their thermal wavelength (dipolar approximation) in N-body systems immersed in a thermal bath. This theoretical framework is applied to study the dynamic of heating/cooling of three-body systems. We show that many-body interactions allow to tailor the temperature field distribution and to drastically change the time scale of thermal relaxation processes.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.4824v1