Symmetries of the ratchet current

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  De Roeck, Wojciech ^a   Maes, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC SWITCHES; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

NONEQUILIBRIUM STATISTICAL MECHANICS; RATCHET CURRENTS; RATCHET EFFECTS; SYMMETRY OPERATIONS; TIME REVERSAL;

ELECTRIC CURRENTS;

EID: 36248965206     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.76.051117     Document Type: Article

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23. That is generally true if the ratchet coordinate can be separated as (x,k), Γ acts by changing k, and θ does not mix x and k. Both examples in Sec. 4 have that property.