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Exact microscopic analysis of a thermal Brownian motor

Statistical Mechanics 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We study a genuine Brownian motor by hard disk molecular dynamics and calculate analytically its properties, including its drift speed and thermal conductivity, from microscopic theory.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0312701,
  title  = {Exact microscopic analysis of a thermal Brownian motor},
  author = {C. Van den Broeck and R. Kawai and P. Meurs},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0312701},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages, 5 figures