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Underdamped quantum ratchets

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EPL
Volume 85, Issue 4, Pages -

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EPL ASSOCIATION, EUROPEAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/85/40003

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  1. DFG [HA1517/31-1]
  2. German Excellence Initiative

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We investigate the quantum ratchet effect under the influence of weak dissipation which we treat within a Floquet-Markov master equation approach. A ratchet current emerges when all relevant symmetries are violated. Using time-reversal symmetric driving we predict a purely dissipation-induced quantum ratchet current. This directed quantum transport results from bath-induced superpositions of non-transporting Floquet states. Copyright (C) EPLA, 2009

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