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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 121, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.104102
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- European Research Council (StG) [307079]
- European Commission FP7-ICT-2011-8 [318804]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) [200020-144464]
- NCCR Molecular Systems Engineering
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [200020_144464] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
- European Research Council (ERC) [307079] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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A reversal of the particle current in overdamped rocking Brownian motors was predicted more than 20 years ago; however, an experimental verification and a deeper insight into this noise-driven mechanism remained elusive. Here, we investigate the high-frequency behavior of a rocking Brownian motor for 60 nm gold spheres based on electrostatic interaction in a 3D-shaped nanofluidic slit and electro-osmotic forcing of the particles. We measure the particle probability density in situ with 10 nm spatial and 250 mu s temporal resolution and compare it with theory. At a driving frequency of 250 Hz, we observe a current reversal that can be traced to the asymmetric and increasingly static probability density at high frequencies.
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