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PHYSICAL REVIEW E
Volume 80, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.050104
Keywords
Brownian motion; magnetic fluids; magnetic particles; nanoparticles
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We test experimentally a Brownian ratchet system suggested by Engel [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 060602 (2003)]. This ratchet system is based on a magnetic fluid that contains nanometer sized magnetic particles in a thermal bath of carrier fluid. An external static magnetic field and, perpendicular to it, an oscillatory magnetic field act on the ferrofluid particles; the total magnetic field contains no rotating component. The directed effective rotation of the particles due to the ratchet effect induces a macroscopic torque density of the fluid. The torque on a spherical ferrofluid sample is measured in dependence on the field parameters. A quantitative comparison with predictions from a microscopic and a phenomenological model are given. Both models describe certain aspects of the measurements correctly, but qualitative discrepancies between both models and experiment are found, particularly in the high-frequency range.
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