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We analyzed voltage rectification for dc SQUIDs biased with ac current with zero mean value. We demonstrate that the reflection symmetry in the 2-dimensional SQUID potential is broken by an applied flux and with appropriate asymmetries in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Weiss , D. Koelle , J. Mueller , K. Barthel , R. Gross

We propose a quantum pump mechanism based on the particular properties of graphene, namely chirality and bipolarity. The underlying physics is the excitation of evanescent modes entering a potential barrier from one lead, while those from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-12 Pablo San-Jose , Elsa Prada , Sigmund Kohler , Henning Schomerus

A beam of linearly polarized light transmitted through magnetically biased graphene can have its axis of polarization rotated by several degrees after passing the graphene sheet. This large Faraday effect is due to the action of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-06 Jürgen Schiefele , Luis Martin-Moreno , Francisco Guinea

Persistent currents can arise in normal-metal rings due to a magnetic flux threading the ring in equilibrium. However, can persistent currents arise in absence of magnetic flux in the same normal-metal rings? Yes they can but in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-07 Colin Benjamin , A M Jayannavar

In this paper the scattering rates of electrons in thin free standing GaAs quantum wires in the electric quantum limit are calculated self-consistently taking into account the collisional broadening caused by scattering processes. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dmitry Pozdnyakov , Vadim Galenchik , Andrei Borzdov

Molecules with complex internal structure in time-dependent periodic potentials are studied by using short Rubinstein-Duke model polymers as an example. We extend our earlier work on transport in stochastically varying potentials to cover…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 Janne Kauttonen , Juha Merikoski

Ratchet devices allow turning an ac input signal into a dc output signal. A ratchet device is set by moving particles driven by zero averages forces on asymmetric potentials. Hybrid nanostructures combining artificially fabricated spin-ice…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-23 V. Rollano , A. Gomez , A. Muñoz-Noval , M. Velez , M. C. de Ory , M. Menghini , E. M. Gonzalez , J L Vicent

We present a detailed study of the transport and the efficiency of a ratchet system in a periodic potential in the presence of correlated noises. The current and the efficiency of the system are investigated. It is found that, when the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bao-Quan Ai , Xian-Ju Wang , Guo-Tao Liu , De-Hua Wen , Wei Chen , Liang-Gang Liu

The response function of graphene is calculated in the presence of a constant current across the sample. For small drift velocities and finite chemical potential, analytic expressions are obtained and consequences on the plasmonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Mohsen Sabbaghi , Hyun-Woo Lee , Tobias Stauber , Kwang Soo Kim

In the framework of the Floquet theory of periodically driven quantum systems, it is demonstrated that irradiation of graphene by a circularly polarized electromagnetic field induces an attractive area in the core of repulsive potentials.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 O. V. Kibis , M. V. Boev , I. V. Iorsh , V. M. Kovalev

Thermal ratchets can extract useful work from random fluctuations. This is common in the molecular scale, such as motor proteins, and has also been used to achieve directional transport in microfluidic devices. In this work, we use the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-08 Gouri Patil , Pranay Mandal , Ambarish Ghosh

We introduce and study a novel design for a ratchet potential for soliton excitations. The potential is implemented by means of an array of point-like (delta) inhomogeneities in an otherwise homogeneous potential. We develop a collective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Luis Morales-Molina , Franz G. Mertens , Angel Sanchez

We investigate the existence of the pure spin ratchet effect in a dissipative quasi-one-dimensional system with Rashba spin-orbit interaction. The system is additionally placed into a transverse uniform stationary in-plane magnetic field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-14 Sergey Smirnov , Dario Bercioux , Milena Grifoni , Klaus Richter

Risken's matrix continued fraction method is used to solve the Fokker-Planck equation to calculate particle current in an inertial symmetric (sinusoidal) periodic potential under the action of a constant force. The particle moves in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-07-18 W. L. Reenbohn , Mangal C. Mahato

We construct a novel scattering theory to investigate magnetoelectrically induced spin polarizations. Local spin polarizations generated by electric currents passing through a spin-orbit coupled mesoscopic system are measured by an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ph. Jacquod

The effect of direct current component appearance in material with non-additive energy spectrum in the case when two electromagnetic waves with mutually transverse planes of polarization are incident normally on the surface of the sample is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-10 V. I. Konchenkov , S. V. Kryuchkov , D. V. Zav'yalov

The polarization of radiation by scattering on an atom embedded in combined external quadrupole electric and uniform magnetic fields is studied theoretically. Analytic formulae are derived for the scattering phase matrix. Limiting cases of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yee Yee Oo , K. N. Nagendra , Sharath Ananthamurthy , G. Ramachandran

We analyze the scattering sector of the Hamiltonians for both gapless and gapped graphene in the presence of a charge impurity using the 2D Dirac equation, which is applicable in the long wavelength limit. We show that for certain range of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-07 Kumar S. Gupta , Andjelo Samsarov , Siddhartha Sen

Directed classical current that increases linearly with time without using a biased external field is obtained in a simple model Hamiltonian system derived from a modified kicked rotor model, by breaking the spatial symmetry of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jiangbin Gong , Paul Brumer

Electron properties of graphene are described in terms of Dirac fermions. Here we thoroughly outline the elastic scattering theory for the two-dimensional massive Dirac fermions in the presence of an axially symmetric potential. While the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 D. S. Novikov