Current rectification by spontaneous symmetry breaking in coupled nanomechanical shuttles

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 21, 2006, Pages

  Ahn, Kang Hun ^a   Park, Hee Chul ^a   Wiersig, Jan ^b   Hong, Jongbae ^c  

^a Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CHARGE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; RESONANCE;

OSCILLATION FREQUENCIES; PARAMETRIC INSTABILITY; VOLTAGE FREQUENCY;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 33751324121     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.216804     Document Type: Article

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