A ratchet for heat transport between identical reservoirs
Statistical Mechanics
2007-05-23 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0206372,
title = {A ratchet for heat transport between identical reservoirs},
author = {Souvik Das and Onuttom Narayan and Sriram Ramaswamy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0206372},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 epsf figures, submitted to Phys Rev Lett., this version contains slightly modified references