Optical Control over Thermal Distributions in Topologically Trivial and Non-Trivial Plasmon Lattices

A consequence of thermal diffusion is that heat, even when applied to a localized region of space, has the tendency to produce a temperature change that is spatially uniform throughout a material. The degree of spatial correlation between the heat power supplied and the temperature change that it induces is therefore likely to be small. Yet, the ability to control heat flow and thus temperature at both nanoscale (