Brownian motors: noisy transport far from equilibrium

Physics Reports - Tập 361 Số 2-4 - Trang 57-265 - 2002
Peter Reimann1
1Institut für Physik, Universität Augsburg, Universitätsstr. 1, 86135 Augsburg, Germany

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