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Nonstationary Transport by Internal White Noise and "Localization" in Ratchets

Condensed Matter 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We revealed a right-left asymmetry of the inter-well mean first passage times for the Brownian particles in a ratchet potential under internal white noise. We showed analytically and numerically that this asymmetry gives rise to the following phenomena: (i) nonstationary transport; (ii) localization or ultraslow (Sinai) diffusion for ratchets with a disorder in the asymmetry parameter of the potential; (iii) equilibrium "drift of labels" in circular ratchets.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9609246,
  title  = {Nonstationary Transport by Internal White Noise and "Localization" in Ratchets},
  author = {Nikolai Brilliantov and Peter Strizhak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9609246},
  year   = {2007}
}

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submitted to Phys.Rev.Lett., RevTEx, 4 pages, 3 figures (ps)