A ratchet for heat transport between identical reservoirs
Abstract
A one-dimensional periodic array of elastically colliding hard points, with a non-centrosymmetric unit cell, connected at its two ends to identical but non-thermal energy reservoirs, is shown to carry a sustained unidirectional energy current.
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