{ "id": "1109.6553", "version": "v2", "published": "2011-09-29T15:16:10.000Z", "updated": "2012-02-13T18:35:35.000Z", "title": "Momentum transfer in non-equilibrium steady states", "authors": [ "Antoine Fruleux", "Ryoichi Kawai", "Ken Sekimoto" ], "comment": "4 pages, 3 figures", "categories": [ "cond-mat.stat-mech" ], "abstract": "When a Brownian object interacts with non-interacting gas particles under non-equilibrium conditions, the energy dissipation associated to the Brownian motion causes an additional force on the object as a `momentum transfer deficit'. This principle is demonstrated first by a new NESS model and then applied to several known models such as adiabatic piston for which simple explanation has been lacking.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2012-02-13T18:35:35.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "05.70.Ln", "05.20.Dd", "05.40.-a" ], "keywords": [ "non-equilibrium steady states", "brownian object interacts", "momentum transfer deficit", "energy dissipation", "simple explanation" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.160601", "journal": "Physical Review Letters", "year": 2012, "month": "Apr", "volume": 108, "number": 16, "pages": 160601 }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 4, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2012PhRvL.108p0601F" } } }