Symmetries shape the current in ratchets induced by a biharmonic driving force

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

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Quintero, Niurka R ^a   Cuesta, José A ^b   Alvarez Nodarse, Renato ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BI-HARMONIC; BROKEN SYMMETRY; COPRIME; DRIVING FORCES; EXTERNAL FORCE; JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS; LOCALIZED STRUCTURES; RATCHET CURRENT; SMALL AMPLITUDE; TIME REVERSAL; TIME SHIFTS;

DAMPING; SOLITONS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 77950170458     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.030102     Document Type: Article

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