Pérez-Madrid, A.; Rubí, J.M.; Mazur, P. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 212 (1994) 3, pp. 231-238
By considering an ensemble of Brownian particles suspended in a heat bath as a thermodynamic system with an internal degree of freedom it is possible to obtain the Fokker-Planck equation for Brownian motion in a temperature gradient, by applying the scheme of non-equilibrium thermodynamics. We...