A Ratchet for heat transport between identical reservoirs

Das, Souvik ; Narayan, Onuttom ; Ramaswamy, Sriram (2002) A Ratchet for heat transport between identical reservoirs Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics, 66 (5). 050103_1-050103_4. ISSN 1539-3755

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Official URL: http://pre.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v66/i5/e050103

Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.66.050103

Abstract

A one-dimensional periodic array of elastically colliding hard points, with a non-centrosymmetric unit cell, connected at its two ends to identical but non-thermal energy reservoirs, is shown to carry a sustained unidirectional energy current.

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