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Tunable near-field radiative heat transfer with the shear polariton in three-body low-symmetry crystals

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The singularity optical phenomena induced by broken symmetry within crystals have recently received widespread attention. In particular, the shear polaritons supported by low-symmetry crystal can improve the controllability of light propagation direction, making them have great potential for application in thermophotonics research. In this paper, we theoretically studied the near-field thermal radiation (NFTR) behavior of a three-body monoclinic crystal system. It is found that three-body systems can enhance NFTR over a wide frequency range by several orders of magnitude beyond the blackbody radiation limit, and the relative rotation of the middle body can play a role manipulation the NFTR between two low-symmetry crystal semi-infinite plates, in particular, the appearance of shear effect in low-symmetry crystals enhances the in-plane anisotropy of the twist-induced NFTR, providing extra approach for harnessing the NFTR of the system. We believe that the enhancement and control scheme of NFTR in the three-body systems can find potential applications in the fields of the realm of nanoscale thermal management.

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This work is partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 62375084), the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province (Grant No.2022JJ30394, 2021JJ30135 and 2021JJ30149), the Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department (Grant No. 21B0048), the Changsha Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. kq2202236), and the Chongqing Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. CSTB2022NSCQ-MSX0872)

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    Qijun Ma & Leyong Jiang

  2. School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China

    Xiaoyu Dai & Yuanjiang Xiang

  3. Key Laboratory of Physics and Devices in Post-Moore Era, College of Hunan Province, Changsha, 410081, China

    Leyong Jiang

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Ma, Q., Dai, X., Jiang, L. et al. Tunable near-field radiative heat transfer with the shear polariton in three-body low-symmetry crystals. Eur. Phys. J. Plus 139, 299 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-024-05087-1

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