Brownian motors
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Peter Hänggi1,∗, Fabio Marchesoni2, and Franco Nori3,4 1 Universität Augsburg, Institut für Physik, Universitätsstrasse 1, 86135 Augsburg, Germany 2 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Camerino, 62032 Camerino, Italy 3 Frontier Research System, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Wako-shi, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan 4 Center for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI48109-1120, USA
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