The Brownian gyrator: a minimal heat engine on the nano-scale
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
A Brownian particle moving in the vicinity of a generic potential minimum under the influence of dissipation and thermal noise from two different heat baths is shown to act as a minimal heat engine, generating a systematic torque onto the physical object at the origin of the potential and an opposite torque onto the medium generating the dissipation.
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@article{arxiv.0710.3735,
title = {The Brownian gyrator: a minimal heat engine on the nano-scale},
author = {Roger Filliger and Peter Reimann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.3735},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Phys. Rev. Lett., in press