• Gibbs thermodynamics and surface properties at the nanoscale 

      de Miguel, Rodrigo; Rubi, J. Miguel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Gibbs’s classical thermodynamic framework approximates systems as infinitely large phases separated by infinitely thin surfaces. The range of validity of this classical framework comes naturally under scrutiny as we become ...
    • Negative Thermophoretic Force in the Strong Coupling Regime 

      de Miguel, Rodrigo; Rubi, J. Miguel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Negative thermophoresis (a particle moving up the temperature gradient) is a somewhat counterintuitive phenomenon which has thus far eluded a simple thermostatistical description. The purpose of this Letter is to show that ...
    • Saturation of radiative heat transfer due to many-body thermalization 

      Latella, Ivan; Messina, Riccardo; Biehs, Svend-Age; Rubi, J. Miguel; Ben-Abdallah, Philippe (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Radiative heat transfer between two bodies saturates at very short separation distances due to the nonlocal optical response of the materials. In this work, we show that the presence of radiative interactions with a third ...
    • Statistical Mechanics at Strong Coupling: A Bridge between Landsberg's Energy Levels and Hill's Nanothermodynamics 

      de Miguel, Rodrigo; Rubi, J. Miguel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      We review and show the connection between three different theories proposed for the thermodynamic treatment of systems not obeying the additivity ansatz of classical thermodynamics. In the 1950s, Landsberg proposed that ...
    • Thermodynamics Far From the Thermodynamic Limit 

      de Miguel, Rodrigo; Rubi, J. Miguel (Journal article, 2017)
      Understanding how small systems exchange energy with a heat bath is important to describe how their unique properties can be affected by the environment. In this contribution, we apply Landsberg's theory of temperature-dependent ...