Semiclassical treatment of a Brownian ratchet using the quantum Smoluchowski equation

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

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Cleary, Liam ^a   Coffey, William T ^a   Kalmykov, Yuri P ^b   Titov, Serguey V ^c  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^c INST OF RADIO ENG AND ELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AC-DRIVING; ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; BROWNIAN MOTION; BROWNIAN RATCHET; CONFIGURATION SPACE; CONTINUED FRACTION; COUPLING LIMITS; DC CHARACTERISTICS; DC COMPONENTS; DC CURRENT; DRIFT VELOCITIES; DRIVING FORCES; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS; LINEAR APPROXIMATIONS; NON-LINEAR REGIMES; PLANCK'S CONSTANTS; QUANTUM CORRECTION; QUANTUM EFFECTS; RATCHET POTENTIAL; SHAPIRO STEPS; SMOLUCHOWSKI EQUATION; TIME EVOLUTIONS; WIGNER FUNCTIONS;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 71049194884     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.051106     Document Type: Article

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