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A ratchet for heat transport between identical reservoirs

Souvik Das, Onuttom Narayan, Sriram Ramaswamy

cond-mat.stat-mecharXiv:cond-mat/0206372

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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