Quantum Ratchets

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2953-2956

  Yukawa, Satoshi ^a   Kikuchi, Macoto ^b   Tatara, Gen ^b   Matsukawa, Hiroshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Quantum Brownian motion; Quantum nonequilibrium dynamics; Quantum tunneling; Ratchet; Tight binding model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031323914     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.66.2953     Document Type: Article

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