{ "id": "cond-mat/0206372", "version": "v1", "published": "2002-06-19T16:57:00.000Z", "updated": "2002-06-19T16:57:00.000Z", "title": "A ratchet for heat transport between identical reservoirs", "authors": [ "Souvik Das", "Onuttom Narayan", "Sriram Ramaswamy" ], "comment": "4 epsf figures, submitted to Phys Rev Lett., this version contains slightly modified references", "categories": [ "cond-mat.stat-mech", "cond-mat.soft" ], "abstract": "A one-dimensional periodic array of elastically colliding hard points, with a non-centrosymmetric unit cell, connected at its two ends to {\\em identical but non-thermal} energy reservoirs, is shown to carry a sustained unidirectional energy current.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2002-06-19T16:57:00.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "heat transport", "identical reservoirs", "non-centrosymmetric unit cell", "sustained unidirectional energy current", "one-dimensional periodic array" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2002cond.mat..6372D" } } }