Molecular wires acting as quantum heat ratchets

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

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Zhan, Fei ^a   Li, Nianbei ^a   Kohler, Sigmund ^b   Hänggi, Peter ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AC-DRIVING; ELECTRIC CURRENT FLOW; HARMONIC MIXING; HEAT CURRENTS; HEAT FLOWS; MOLECULAR JUNCTION; MOLECULAR WIRES; QUANTUM HEAT; RATCHET EFFECTS; REFLECTION SYMMETRY; RELATIVE PHASE; SECOND HARMONICS; TEMPERATURE MODULATION; THERMOPOWERS;

ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; FLOW MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; MODULATION; THERMOANALYSIS;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS;

EID: 73649131630     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.061115     Document Type: Article

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