title: Chaotic Hamiltonian ratchets for pulsed periodic double-well potentials: classical correlations and the ratchet current.
abstract: We present analytical derivations of the diffusion rates, ratchet currents, and time scales of a new ratchet in a fully chaotic Hamiltonian system, introduced in Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 194102 (2002)] with a proposed implementation using atoms in pulsed standing waves of light. The origin of this type of ratchet current is in asymmetric momentum diffusion rates which result when a "double-well" lattice is pulsed with unequal "kick" periods. The form of the new short-time correlations which modify the diffusion rates are derived. The resulting formulas for the classical energy diffusion rates are shown to give good agreement with numerical simulations. A closed analytical formula for the ratchet current is also obtained, which predicts correctly the current magnitudes and current reversals. The characteristic "ratchet time," a classical time scale associated with the momentum-diffusion ratchet is derived analytically. The competition between the ratchet time t(r) , and the quantum break time t(*) is investigated further.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: N A C
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Hutchings
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Isherwood
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Jonckheere
authors.forename: T S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Monteiro