What decides the direction of a current?
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.
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