Wednesday, October 24, 2012

1210.6025 (R. K. Shrestha et al.)

Controlling the Momentum Current of an Off-resonant Ratchet    [PDF]

R. K. Shrestha, J. Ni, W. K. Lam, S. Wimberger, G. S. Summy
We experimentally investigate the phenomenon of a quantum ratchet created by exposing a Bose-Einstein Condensate to short pulses of a potential which is periodic in both space and time. Such a ratchet is manifested by a directed current of particles, even though there is an absence of a net bias force. We confirm a recent theoretical prediction [M. Sadgrove and S. Wimberger, New J. Phys. \textbf{11}, 083027 (2009)] that the current direction can be controlled by experimental parameters which leave the underlying symmetries of the system unchanged. We demonstrate that this behavior can be understood using a single variable containing many of the experimental parameters and thus the ratchet current is describable using a single universal scaling law.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.6025

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