Brownian ratchets and Parrondo's games

Chaos

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 705-714

  Harmer, Gregory P ^b   Abbott, Derek ^b   Taylor, Peter G ^b   Parrondo, Juan M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b NONE

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EID: 0000002346     PISSN: 10541500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1395623     Document Type: Article

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