Driven lattice glass as a ratchet and pawl machine
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-07 v2
Abstract
Boundary-induced transport in particle systems with anomalous diffusion exhibits rectification, negative resistance, and hysteresis phenomena depending on the way the drive acts on the boundary. The solvable case of a 1D system characterized by a power-law diffusion coefficient and coupled to two particles reservoirs at different chemical potential is examined. In particular, it is shown that a microscopic realisation of such a diffusion model is provided by a 3D driven lattice-gas with kinetic constraints, in which energy barriers are absent and the local microscopic reversibility holds.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0109298,
title = {Driven lattice glass as a ratchet and pawl machine},
author = {Mauro Sellitto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0109298},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
12 pages, 4 figures, minor changes