Citation
C. Mennerat-robilliard et al., Ratchet for cold rubidium atoms: The asymmetric optical lattice, PHYS REV L, 82(4), 1999, pp. 851-854
Citations number
25
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
ISSN journal
00319007
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Volume
82
Issue
4
Year of publication
1999
Pages
851 - 854
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(19990125)82:4<851:RFCRAT>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
It was suggested recently that particles evolving in a bipotential that is
macroscopically flat but locally asymmetric can be set into directed motion
[J. Prost et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 2652 (1994)]. We show evidence of t
his effect using cold rubidium atoms in a grey optical lattice.