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What decides the
direction of a current?
Christian Maes
Vol. 4 (2016), No. 3-4, 275–295
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Nonequilibria show currents that are maintained as the result of steady driving. We ask here what decides their direction. It is not only the second law or the positivity of the entropy production; nondissipative aspects also often matter and sometimes completely decide the direction. |
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Dedicated in honor of Lucio Russo |
Keywords
direction current, nonequilibrium statistical mechanics
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Mathematical Subject Classification 2010
Primary: 82C03
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Milestones
Received: 1 April 2016
Revised: 19 August 2016
Accepted: 26 September 2016
Published: 17 December 2016
Communicated by Raffaele Esposito
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Authors |
| Christian Maes | |
| Instituut voor Theoretische
Fysica Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Celestijnenlaan 200D 3001 Leuven Belgium |
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