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Transport coherence in a time-asymmetric rocked ratchet model

Statistical Mechanics 2016-12-15 v1

Abstract

We study the dynamics of an over damped Brownian particle in a saw tooth potential in the presence of a temporal asymmetric driving force. We observe that in the deterministic limit, the transport coherence, which is determined by a dimensionless quantity called Peclet number, PePe is quite high for larger spatial asymmetry in the ratchet potential. For all the regime of parameter space of this model, PePe follows the nature of current like Stokes efficiency. Diffusion as a function of amplitude of drive shows a minimum exactly at which the current shows a maximum. Unlike the previously studied models, the PePe as a function of temperature shows a peaking behavior and the coherence in transport decreases for high temperatures. In the nonadiabatic regime, the PePe as a function of amplitude of drive decreases and the peak gets broader as a result the transport becomes unreliable.

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@article{arxiv.1612.04446,
  title  = {Transport coherence in a time-asymmetric rocked ratchet model},
  author = {Mamata Sahoo and A M Jayannavar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.04446},
  year   = {2016}
}

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8 pages, 8figures