Nature Communications (Aug 2017)

Retraction Note: A photon thermal diode

  • Zhen Chen,
  • Carlaton Wong,
  • Sean Lubner,
  • Shannon Yee,
  • John Miller,
  • Wanyoung Jang,
  • Corey Hardin,
  • Anthony Fong,
  • Javier E. Garay,
  • Chris Dames

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms16134
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 1

Abstract

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Nature Communications 5: Article number: 5446 (2014); Published: 17 November 2014; Updated: 21 August 2017 Because two of its three major findings have been invalidated, the authors wish to retract this Article1. Budaev2 correctly identifies a fundamental symmetry error in the way the ‘inelastic thermal collimation’ was configured in several crucial experiments of ref.