Collective directed transport of symmetrically coupled lattices in symmetric periodic potentials

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 154102/1-154102/4

  Zheng, Zhigang ^a,b   Cross, M C ^b   Hu, Gang ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; CAVITY RESONATORS; CHARGE CARRIERS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ELECTRON RESONANCE; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; QUANTUM THEORY;

COLLECTIVE DIRECTED TRANSPORT; MODE LOCKING INDUCED RESONANTS; MUTUAL INTERACTIONS; SYMMETRIC PERIODIC POTENTIALS; SYMMETRICALLY COUPLED LATTICES;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT;

EID: 0037037907     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.154102     Document Type: Article

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