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Heat Conduction Networks

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We study networks of interacting oscillators, driven at the boundary by heat baths at possibly different temperatures. A set of first elementary questions are discussed concerning the uniqueness of a stationary possibly Gibbsian density and the nature of the entropy production and the local heat currents. We also derive a Carnot efficiency relation for the work that can be extracted from the heat engine.

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  1. Instituut voor Theoretische Fysica K.U. Leuven, B-3001, Leuven, Belgium

    Christian Maes & Michel Verschuere (Aspirant FWO Vlaanderen)

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Maes, C., Netočný, K. & Verschuere, M. Heat Conduction Networks. Journal of Statistical Physics 111, 1219–1244 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023004300229

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