title: Brownian gyrator: a minimal heat engine on the nanoscale.
abstract: A Brownian particle moving in the vicinity of a generic potential minimum under the influence of dissipation and thermal noise from two different heat baths is shown to act as a minimal heat engine, generating a systematic torque onto the physical object at the origin of the potential and an opposite torque onto the medium generating the dissipation.
authors.affiliation: Engineering and Information Technology, Berne University of Applied Sciences, 2501 Biel/Bienne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Roger
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Filliger
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Reimann