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The motion of a Brownian particle in the presence of Coulomb friction and an asymmetric spatial potential was evaluated in this study. The system exhibits a ratchet effect, i.e., an average directed motion even in the absence of an external…

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We present experimental observations of the velocity and spatial distribution of inertial particles dispersed in the turbulent downward flow through a vertical channel at $Re_{\tau} = 235$ and $335$. The working fluid is air laden with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-16 Kee Onn Fong , Omid Amili , Filippo Coletti

The transport properties of a spherical active Brownian particle in a periodic potential under heavy damping are considered. The self-propelled particle is subjected to the asymmetric potential, detailed balance is lost and the particles…

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We consider a particle moving in a one dimensional potential which has a symmetric deterministic part and a quenched random part. We study analytically the probability distributions of the local time (spent by the particle around its mean…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Satya N. Majumdar , Alain Comtet

We investigate the propagation of waves in one-dimensional systems with L\'evy-type disorder. We perform a complete analysis of non-relativistic and relativistic wave transmission submitted to potential barriers whose width, separation or…

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We study the drift of suspended micro-particles in a viscous liquid pumped back and forth through a periodic lattice of pores (drift ratchet). In order to explain the particle drift observed in such an experiment, we present an…

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We consider a dynamical system described by the differential equation $\dot{Y}_t=-U'(Y_t)$ with a unique stable point at the origin. We perturb the system by the L\'evy noise of intensity $\varepsilon$ to obtain the stochastic differential…

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We present a detailed study of the transport and energetics of a Brownian particle moving in a periodic potential in the presence of an adiabatic external periodic drive. The particle is considered to move in a medium with periodic space…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Debasis Dan , Mangal C. Mahato , A. M. Jayannavar

L\'evy walks (LWs) are spatiotemporally coupled random-walk processes describing superdiffusive heat conduction in solids, propagation of light in disordered optical materials, motion of molecular motors in living cells, or motion of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-01 Pengbo Xu , Tian Zhou , Ralf Metzler , Weihua Deng

Infiltration of anomalously diffusing particles from one material to another through a biased interface is studied using continuous time random walk and Levy walk approaches. Subdiffusion in both systems may lead to a net drift from one…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-03 Nickolay Korabel , Eli Barkai

We numerically solve the underdamped Langevin equation to obtain the trajectories of a particle in a sinusoidal potential driven by a temporally sinusoidal force in a medium with coefficient of friction periodic in space as the potential…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-21 D. Kharkongor , W. L. Reenbohn , Mangal C. Mahato

We investigate the stochastic dynamics of an active particle moving at a constant speed under the influence of a fluctuating torque. In our model the angular velocity is generated by a constant torque and random fluctuations described as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-04 Joerg Noetel , Igor M. Sokolov , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

Transport of a particle in a spatially periodic harmonic potential under the influence of a slowly time-dependent unbiased periodic external force is studied. The equations of motion are the same as in the problem of a slowly forced…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-02-20 Xavier Leoncini , Anatoly Neishtadt , Alexei Vasiliev

We investigate the distribution properties of the fractional L\'evy motion. We consider separately the cases $0<H<1/2$ (short memory) and $1/2<H<1$ (long memory), where $H$ is the Hurst parameter, and present the asymptotic behaviour of the…

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We consider the unidirectional particle transport in a suspension of colloidal particles which interact with each other via a pair potential having a hard-core repulsion plus an attractive tail. The colloids are confined within a long…

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We are exploring two archetypal noise induced escape scenarios: escape from a finite interval and from the positive half-line under the action of the mixture of L\'evy and Gaussian white noises in the overdamped regime, for the random…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-10 Przemysław Pogorzelec , Bartłomiej Dybiec

Using the method of quantum trajectories we study a quantum chaotic dissipative ratchet appearing for particles in a pulsed asymmetric potential in the presence of a dissipative environment. The system is characterized by directed transport…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gabriel G. Carlo , Giuliano Benenti , Giulio Casati , Dima L. Shepelyansky

L\'{e}vy walk is a popular and more `physical' model to describe the phenomena of superdiffusion, because of its finite velocity. The movements of particles are under the influences of external potentials almost at anytime and anywhere. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-03 Yao Chen , Weihua Deng

The non-Markovian continuous-time random walk model, featuring fat-tailed waiting times and narrow distributed displacements with a non-zero mean, is a well studied model for anomalous diffusion. Using an analytical approach, we recently…

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