Published January 1, 2005
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Journal article
From Maxwell demon to Brownian motor
Creators
- 1. Limburgs Universitair Centrum, B-3590, Diepenbeek (Belgium)
- 2. Department of Physics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294 (United States)
Description
Several versions of a hard disc microscopic ratchet are introduced and studied with molecular dynamics. While, at equilibrium, no rectification of the fluctuations takes place, a systematic motion appears when a temperature difference is applied to different units of the motor. In the limit of dilute gases, an exact analytic calculation of its properties is found to be in excellent agreement with molecular dynamics simulations
Availability note (English)
Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/1367-2630/7/10/njp5_1_010.pdf or at the Web site for the journal New Journal of Physics (ISSN 1367-2630) http://www.iop.org/Additional details
Identifiers
- URL
- http://stacks.iop.org/1367-2630/7/10/njp5_1_010.pdf; http://www.iop.org/;
- DOI
- 10.1088/1367-2630/7/1/010;
- PII
- S1367-2630(05)86316-5;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- New Journal of Physics
- Journal Volume
- 7
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 10
- ISSN
- 1367-2630
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 36033590
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ANALYTICAL SOLUTION; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; EQUILIBRIUM; EXACT SOLUTIONS; FLUCTUATIONS; GASES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS METHOD
- Descriptors DEC
- CALCULATION METHODS; FLUIDS; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; SIMULATION; VARIATIONS