{
  "id": "1605.01265",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2016-05-04T13:20:14.000Z",
  "updated": "2016-05-04T13:20:14.000Z",
  "title": "What decides the direction of a current?",
  "authors": [
    "Christian Maes"
  ],
  "comment": "Dedicated in honor of Lucio Russo",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech"
  ],
  "abstract": "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.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2016-05-04T13:20:14.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "second law",
      "entropy production",
      "nonequilibria",
      "positivity"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}