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What decides the direction of a current?

Christian Maes

Published 2016-05-04Version 1

Nonequilibria show currents that are maintained as the result of a steady driving. We ask here what decides their direction. It is not only the second law, or the positivity of the entropy production that decides; also non-dissipative aspects often matter and sometimes completely decide.

Comments: Dedicated in honor of Lucio Russo
Categories: cond-mat.stat-mech
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