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Brownian refrigerator

C. Van den Broeck, R. Kawai

cond-mat.stat-mecharXiv:cond-mat/0602153

Abstract

Onsager symmetry implies that a Brownian motor, driven by a temperature gradient, will also perform a refrigerator function upon loading. We analytically calculate the corresponding heat flux for an exactly solvable microscopic model and compare it with molecular dynamics simulations.

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