Modified Feynman ratchet with velocity-dependent fluctuations
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Modified Feynman ratchet with velocity-dependent fluctuations
The randomness of Brownian motion at thermodynamic equilibrium can be spontaneously broken by velocity-dependence of fluctuations, i.e., by dependence of values or probability distributions of fluctuating properties on Brownian-motional velocity. Such randomness-breaking can spontaneously obtain via interaction between Brownian-motional Doppler effects — which manifest the required velocity-dep...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Entropy
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1099-4300
DOI: 10.3390/e6010076