Irreversible Operation in a Stalled State of Feynman's Ratchet

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2974-2976

  Hondou, Tsuyoshi ^a   Takagi, Fumiko ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Energetics; Entropy; Feynman's ratchet; Ratchet

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032262993     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.67.2974     Document Type: Article

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