Artificial Brownian motors: Controlling transport on the nanoscale
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Peter Hänggi 2, ∗ and Fabio Marchesoni 4, † Institut für Physik, Universität Augsburg, Universitätsstr. 1, D-86135 Augsburg, Germany Department of Physics and Centre for Computational Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117542 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Camerino, I-62032 Camerino, Italy School of Physics, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul 130-722, Korea
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تاریخ انتشار 2008