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A hard disk microscopic ratchet is introduced and studied with molecular dynamics. The properties of the systematic motion that appears when its two compartments are at different temperatures is documented.
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Christian Van den Broeck, Ryoichi Kawai, P. Meurs, "Microscopic models of Brownian ratchets," Proc. SPIE 5114, Noise in Complex Systems and Stochastic Dynamics, (7 May 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.488564