# 33rd M. Smoluchowski Symposium on Statistical Physics

3-4 December 2020
Europe/Warsaw timezone

## Experimental study of the energy flux between two NESS thermostats.

3 Dec 2020, 18:20
1m
poster

### Speaker

Dr. Antoine Naert (ENS - Lyon, France)

### Description

We address the question of energy transport in out-of-equilibrium systems. The experiment consists in two coupled granular gas Non-Equilibrium Steady State (NESS) heat baths, in which $2$ cm-scale rotors are imbedded. These Brownian-like mobiles are electro-mechanically coupled with a resistor R, allowing energy to flow between them. The mean flux is non-zero if the temperatures of the baths differ. The resistor R allows measurement of the flux and the temperatures in each bath simultaneously. Varying $R$, we show that, in the limit of non-dissipative coupling ($R\rightarrow 0$), the heat flux obey the ‘eXchange Fluctuation Theorem’ (XFT), in a form proposed by Jarzynski and Wojcik in $2004$, for the fluctuations of the flux between finite size equilibrium heat baths. This result, here obtained for granular gas thermostats experiment, is nevertheless representative of a large class of NESS systems.

### Primary author

Dr. Antoine Naert (ENS - Lyon, France)

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