2 papers
cond-mat.stat-mech2016
A mechanical autonomous stochastic heat engine
Marc Serra-Garcia, André Foehr, Miguel Molerón +3
Stochastic heat engines are devices that generate work from random thermal motion using a small number of highly fluctuating degrees of freedom. Proposals for such devices have exi…
nlin.PS2015
Exciting and Harvesting Vibrational States in Harmonically Driven Granular Chains
C. Chong, E. Kim, E. G. Charalampidis +6
This article explores the excitation of different vibrational states in a spatially extended dynamical system through theory and experiment. As a prototypical example, we consider…