What decides the direction of a current?
Statistical Mechanics
2018-03-16 v1
Abstract
Nonequilibria show currents that are maintained as the result of a steady driving. We ask here what decides their direction. It is not only the second law, or the positivity of the entropy production that decides; also non-dissipative aspects often matter and sometimes completely decide.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1605.01265,
title = {What decides the direction of a current?},
author = {Christian Maes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.01265},
year = {2018}
}
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Dedicated in honor of Lucio Russo