Ratchet without spatial asymmetry for controlling the motion of magnetic flux quanta using time-asymmetric drives

Nature Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 305-311

  Cole, David ^a   Bending, Simon ^a   Savel'ev, Sergey ^b,c   Grigorenko, Alexander ^d   Tamegai, Tsuyoshi ^e   Nori, Franco ^b,f  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL DEVICES; SILICON; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

OPTICAL TWEEZERS; SPATIAL RATCHET SUBSTRATE;

MAGNETIC FLUX;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33645635587     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1608     Document Type: Article

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