Rectification of thermal fluctuations in ideal gases

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 5 1, 2004, Pages

  Meurs, P ^a   Van Den Broeck, C ^a   Garcia, A ^b  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; DIFFUSION; HAMILTONIANS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PISTONS; PROBABILITY; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ADIABATIC PISTONS; IDEAL GASES; THERMAL BROWNIAN MOTORS; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 23244463505     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.051109     Document Type: Article

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