Self-Consistent Microscopic Theory of Fluctuation-Induced Transport
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- 2 January 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 74 (1) , 10-13
Abstract
A Maxwell's demon type "information engine" that extracts work from a bath is constructed from a microscopic Hamiltonian for the whole system including a subsystem, a thermal bath, and a nonequilibrium bath of phonons or photons that represents an information source or sink. The kinetics of the engine is calculated self-consistently from the state of the nonequilibrium bath, and the relation of this kinetics to the underlying microscopic thermodynamics is established.Keywords
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