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We discuss the reversibility of the Brownian heat engine. We perform an asymptotic analysis of the Kramers equation on a Buttiker-Landauer system and show quantitatively that Carnot efficiency is unattainable even in the fully overdamped limit. The unattainability is attributed to inevitable irreversible heat flow over the temperature boundary.
Hondou et al. (Wed,) studied this question.