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Brownian Carnot engine

The Carnot cycle imposes a fundamental upper limit to the efficiency of a macroscopic motor operating between two thermal baths1. However, this bound needs to be reinterpreted at microscopic scales, where molecular bio-motors2 and some artificial micro-engines3–5 operate. As described by stochastic...

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Autores principales: Martínez, I. A., Roldán, É., Dinis, L., Petrov, D., Parrondo, J. M. R., Rica, R. A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4907353/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27330541
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/NPHYS3518