Intrinsic Ratchets
Statistical Mechanics
2011-04-01 v1
Abstract
We present a generic formalism to describe Brownian motion of particles with intrinsic asymmetry and give predictions for the drift behavior in unbiased time-dependent force fields. Our findings are supported by molecular dynamics simulations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0810.1898,
title = {Intrinsic Ratchets},
author = {M. van den Broek and R. Eichhorn and C. Van den Broeck},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.1898},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
6 pages, 6 figures