Nature Communications (May 2022)

Heat transfer control using a thermal analogue of coherent perfect absorption

  • Ying Li,
  • Minghong Qi,
  • Jiaxin Li,
  • Pei-Chao Cao,
  • Dong Wang,
  • Xue-Feng Zhu,
  • Cheng-Wei Qiu,
  • Hongsheng Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30023-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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A thermal analogue of coherent perfect absorption would allow to control heat transfer using heat, but the lack of momentum propagation in a thermal field seems to prevent any role for coherence. Here, the authors allow this by introducing an imitated momentum for steady-state heat diffusion.