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Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 090601 (2004) [4 pages]

Microscopic Analysis of a Thermal Brownian Motor

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C. Van den Broeck1, R. Kawai2, and P. Meurs1
1Limburgs Universitair Centrum, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
2Department of Physics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA

Received 11 December 2003; published 25 August 2004

We study a genuine Brownian motor by hard disk molecular dynamics and calculate analytically its properties, including its drift speed and thermal conductivity, from microscopic theory.

© 2004 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.090601
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.090601
PACS:
05.70.Ln, 05.20.Dd, 05.40.Jc, 05.60.Cd