Abstract
It is shown that the analysis of radiative heat transport across a nanoscale gap cannot ignore the correlation between radiations from the different sides of the gap. This correlation can be neglected in two cases: when the gap is considerably wider than the dominant wavelength of radiation and when the temperatures on different sides of the gap are equal.
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