Directed current in quasi-adiabatically ac-driven nonlinear systems

Abstract

We rigorously prove the existence of directed transport for a certain class of ac-driven nonlinear one dimensional systems, namely the generation of transport with a preferred direction in the absence of a net driving force.

13 pages (one misprint has been corrected)

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