TY - GEN
T1 - Directed motion of an atomic scale engine and stability analysis
AU - Guo, Yi
AU - Zhang, Wenlin
AU - Wang, Zheng
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Atomic scale engines have received increasing research interests due to recent advances in nano-particle manipulation techniques. We study the model of an artificial atomic scale engine proposed by [1], and show numerically that the model exhibits directed motion under asymmetric particle coupling. We then conduct stability analysis of a 3- particle engine and prove that stable and unstable equilibrium points arise in an alternating sequence thus step motion can be deduced. Our analytic understanding of the complex nonlinear dynamics may guide future design of such an envisioned engine at the atomic scale.
AB - Atomic scale engines have received increasing research interests due to recent advances in nano-particle manipulation techniques. We study the model of an artificial atomic scale engine proposed by [1], and show numerically that the model exhibits directed motion under asymmetric particle coupling. We then conduct stability analysis of a 3- particle engine and prove that stable and unstable equilibrium points arise in an alternating sequence thus step motion can be deduced. Our analytic understanding of the complex nonlinear dynamics may guide future design of such an envisioned engine at the atomic scale.
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U2 - 10.1109/COASE.2010.5584779
DO - 10.1109/COASE.2010.5584779
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78149450898
SN - 9781424454471
T3 - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2010
SP - 545
EP - 550
BT - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2010
T2 - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2010
Y2 - 21 August 2010 through 24 August 2010
ER -