Self-Consistent Microscopic Model of Fluctuation-Induced Transport
Condensed Matter
2009-10-22 v1
Abstract
A Maxwell's demon type ``information engine" which extracts work from a bath is constructed from a microscopic Hamiltonian for the whole system including a subsystem, a thermal bath, and a nonequilibrium bath of phonons or photons which represents an information source/sink. The kinetics of the engine is calculated self-consistently from the state of the nonequilibrium bath, and the relation of this kinetics to the underlying microscopic thermodynamics is established.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9410055,
title = {Self-Consistent Microscopic Model of Fluctuation-Induced Transport},
author = {Mark M. Millonas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9410055},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
15 pages, 2 ps figures on request, LaTeX Article Format (submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett.)