Das, Souvik and Narayan, Onuttom and Ramaswamy, Sriram (2002) A ratchet for heat transport between identical reservoirs. [Preprint]
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Abstract
A one-dimensional periodic array of elastically colliding hard points, with a non-centrosymmetric unit cell, connected at its two ends to {\em identical but non-thermal} energy reservoirs, is shown to carry a sustained unidirectional energy current.
Item Type: | Preprint |
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Keywords: | thermal ratchets;heat conduction;nonequilibrium steady states |
Department/Centre: | Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics |
Date Deposited: | 01 Jun 2004 |
Last Modified: | 19 Sep 2010 04:12 |
URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/28 |
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