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1Université de Lyon, ENS de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique, F-69342 Lyon, France.
Abstract:
The article by Riera-Campeny, Mehboudi, Pons, and Sanpera [Phys. Rev. E 99, 032126 (2019)2470-004510.1103/PhysRevE.99.032126] studies heat rectification in a network of harmonic oscillators which is periodically driven. Both the title and introduction stress the quantum nature of the system. Here we show that the results are more general and are equally valid for a classical system, which broadens the interest of the paper and may suggest further pathways for a basic understanding of the phenomenon.
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