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An Experimental Realization of Spin Solitons

Aidan Moran-Bates

Published Aug 22, 2026• 0 citations
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Our research is centered around the creation of a generalized and universal system that can replicate the soliton generaton found in walking droplets. This experimental setup has been realized and uses a programmable motor to create the initial wave, which is then propagated throughout the system via a connection of AC synchronous motors, torsion springs, and gears. Further work into this system will be to show that this soliton generation can be used to create a Turing-complete machine capable of logic gate functionality.

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10.17615/z9zt-9y25

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Our research is centered around the creation of a generalized and universal system that can replicate the soliton generaton found in walking droplets. This experimental setup has been realized and uses a programmable motor to create the initial wave, which is then propagated throughout the system via a connection of AC synchronous motors, torsion springs, and gears. Further work into this system will be to show that this soliton generation can be used to create a Turing-complete machine capable of logic gate functionality.
Brownian motors, or ratchets, are devices which "rectify" Brownian motion, i.e. they can generate a current of particles out of unbiased fluctuations. The ratchet effect is a very general phenomenon which applies to a wide range of physical systems, and indeed ratchets have been realized with a variety of solid state devices, with optical trap setups as well as with synthetic molecules and granular gases. The present article reviews recent experimental realizations of ac driven ratchets with cold atoms in driven optical lattices. This is quite an unusual system for a Brownian motor as there is no a real thermal bath, and both the periodic potential for the atoms and the fluctuations are determined by laser fields. Such a system allowed us to realize experimentally rocking and gating ratchets, and to precisely investigate the relationship between symmetry and transport in these ratchets, both for the case of periodic and quasiperiodic driving.
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