Does the fluctuation-dissipation relation guarantee equilibrium?
Statistical Mechanics
2010-07-02 v3
Abstract
We study a symmetry broken harmonic oscillator in contact with a heat bath characterized by a fixed temperature. The overdampped system is solved exactly to show symmetry broken directed transport raising the question whether fluctuation-dissipation relation does guarantee equilibrium.
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@article{arxiv.1006.5108,
title = {Does the fluctuation-dissipation relation guarantee equilibrium?},
author = {Arijit Bhattacharyay},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.5108},
year = {2010}
}
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8 pages, no figure