Many-body physics aims to understand emergent properties of systems made of many
interacting objects. This review examines recent progress on the topic of radiative heat …

Photonic devices play an increasingly important role in advancing physics and engineering.
Although improvements in nanofabrication and computational methods have driven …

Thermal radiation is one of the most universal physical phenomena, and its study has
played a key role in the history of modern physics. Our understanding of this subject has …

Singular behaviors are increasingly being found in structures supporting bound states in the
continuum (BICs), while the nonreciprocity with spectral phase singularity has not been …

Right after the first edition was published in 2007, I was invited to give seminars at a number
of universities in several countries. At that time, many people considered nanotechnology …

Radiative thermal transport via the fluctuating electromagnetic near-field has recently
attracted increasing attention due to its fundamental importance and its impact on a range of …

We introduce general principles for achieving maximal violation of detailed balance in
thermal radiation. We validate these principles by direct numerical calculations, based on …

Kirchhoff's law is the theoretical basis for characterizing thermal radiation. The construction
of nonreciprocal thermal radiation needs to violate Kirchhoff's law, in which its existing …

The almost-complete violation of Kirchhoff's law possesses various potential applications,
such as nonreciprocal thermal emitters, thermal routers, and other logic devices. Recently …

Near-field radiative heat transfer (NFRHT) governed by evanescent waves, provides a
platform to thoroughly understand the transport behavior of nonradiative photons, and also …