Quantum ratchet effect for vortices

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Mojer, J B ^a   Peguiron, J ^a   Grifoni, M ^a   Tusveld, M ^a   Mooij, J E ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; BUSBARS; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HAMILTONIANS; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; LOW TEMPERATURE PROPERTIES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BIAS CURRENTS; MAGNETIC FIELD STRENGTH; QUANTUM RATCHET EFFECT; QUASI-ONE-DIMENSIONAL JOSEPHSON JUNCTION ARRAY; SCHRODINGER EQUATION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0037422960     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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