What decides the direction of a current?

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Abstract

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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Maes, C. (2016). What decides the direction of a current? Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems, 4(3–4), 275–295. https://doi.org/10.2140/memocs.2016.4.275

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