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Quasiperiodically driven ratchets for cold atoms

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-11 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We investigate experimentally the route to quasiperiodicity in a driven ratchet for cold atoms, and examine the relationship between symmetries and transport while approaching the quasiperiodic limit. Depending on the specific form of driving, quasiperiodicity results in the complete suppression of transport, or into the restoration of the symmetries which hold for a periodic driving.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0610262,
  title  = {Quasiperiodically driven ratchets for cold atoms},
  author = {R. Gommers and S. Denisov and F. Renzoni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0610262},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

misprint in the label of Fig. 4 corrected