Dynamics of a dimer in a symmetric potential: Ratchet effect generated by an internal degree of freedom

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

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Von Gehlen, Sebastian ^a   Evstigneev, Mykhaylo ^a   Reimann, Peter ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

COUPLING STRENGTH; SYMMETRIC POTENTIAL;

DIMERS;

EID: 41549151151     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.77.031136     Document Type: Article

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