Rectification and Phase Locking for Particles on Two Dimensional Periodic Substrates
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-07 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
We show that a novel rectification phenomena is possible for overdamped particles interacting with a 2D periodic substrate and driven with a longitudinal DC drive and a circular AC drive. As a function of DC amplitude, the longitudinal velocity increases in a series of quantized steps with transverse rectification occuring near these transitions. We present a simple model that captures the quantization and rectification behaviors.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0110330,
title = {Rectification and Phase Locking for Particles on Two Dimensional Periodic Substrates},
author = {C. Reichhardt and C. J. Olson and M. B. Hastings},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0110330},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages, 4 postscript figures