Microscopic analysis of a thermal Brownian motor

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 9, 2004, Pages

  Van Den Broeck, C ^a   Kawai, R ^b   Meurs, P ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; ENERGY TRANSFER; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); HEAT CONDUCTION; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SPEED; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; SUBSTRATES; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMODYNAMICS; WHITE NOISE;

ELASTIC COLLISIONS; MICROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; THERMAL BROWNIAN MOTORS; THERMAL ENGINES; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS;

MOTORS;

EID: 19544389476     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.090601     Document Type: Article

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