Effect of Resonant Photon Emission in Radiative Heat Transfer and Generation

• Published in: JETP letters 2019-09, Vol.110 (6), p.397-404
• Main Author: Volokitin, A. I.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Atomic; Biological and Medical Physics; Biophysics; Doppler effect; Frequency ranges; Heat generation; Molecular; Optical and Plasma Physics; Optics and Laser Physics; Particle and Nuclear Physics; Photon emission; Photons; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Plates; Polaritons; Quantum Information Technology; Radiative heat transfer; Resonant photons; Sliding; Solid State Physics; Spintronics
• ISSN: 0021-3640; 1090-6487
• DOI: 10.1134/S0021364019180103

The effect of resonances in the photon emission rate in the radiative heat generation and transfer and the Casimir friction at the sliding of two polar dielectric plates has been studied. The resonances have different origin in the frequency ranges of the normal and anomalous Doppler effects. In the frequency range of the normal Doppler effect, the resonances are due to resonant photon tunneling between surface phonon/plas-mon polaritons of plates. Such resonances exist only at a relative sliding velocity v = 0 for two identical plates. However, the resonances may occur at v ≠ 0 for different plates. In the frequency range of the anomalous Doppler effect, the resonances are due to the excitation generation in both plates. While the resonances are finite in the frequency range of the normal Doppler effect, singular resonances are possible even in the presence of dissipation in the system in the frequency range of the anomalous Doppler effect. The resonances for identical and different sliding plates have been considered.