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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik
DY 18: Brownian Motion / Noise (joint session DY/TT)
DY 18.9: Talk
Tuesday, March 21, 2017, 12:15–12:30, ZEU 147
Ratchet with tunable asymmetry based on ϕ Josephson junction: operation, loading & efficiency. — •Edward Goldobin1, Rosina Menditto1, Martin Weides2, Hermann Kohlstedt3, Dieter Koelle1, and Reinhold Kleiner1 — 1Physikalische Institut, Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 14, 72076, Tübingen, Germany — 2Physikalisches Institut, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany — 3Nanoelektronik, Technische Fakultät, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, D-24143 Kiel, Germany
We demonstrate experimentally the operation of a deterministic Josephson ratchet with tunable asymmetry [1]. The ratchet is based on a ϕ Josephson junction with a ferromagnetic barrier [2] operating in the underdamped regime. The ratchet operation with a load, i.e. in the presence of the additional dc counter current trying to stop the ratchet, is also demonstrated. Under these conditions the ratchet produces a non-zero output power. We estimate the efficiency of the ratchet using a general model for Josephson ratchets with hysteresis [3].
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