Thermal ratchet effects in ferrofluids

Details Thermal ratchet effects in ferrofluids Thermal ratchet effects in ferrofluids

2004-05-18

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0405393v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

18 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.70.051107

Rotational Brownian motion of colloidal magnetic particles in ferrofluids under the influence of an oscillating external magnetic field is investigated. It is shown that for a suitable time dependence of the magnetic field, a noise induced rotation of the ferromagnetic particles due to rectification of thermal fluctuations takes place. Via viscous coupling, the associated angular momentum is transferred from the magnetic nano-particles to the carrier liquid and can then be measured as macroscopic torque on the fluid sample. A thorough theoretical analysis of the effect in terms of symmetry considerations, analytical approximations, and numerical solutions is given which is in accordance with recent experimental findings.

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