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In this work, the ratchet dynamics of Brownian particles driven by an external sinusoidal (harmonic) force is investigated. The gating ratchet effect is observed when another harmonic is used to modulate the spatially symmetric potential in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-24 Luis Dinis , Niurka R. Quintero

We investigate the dynamics of quantum particles in a ratchet potential subject to an ac force field. We develop a perturbative approach for weak ratchet potentials and force fields. Within this approach, we obtain an analytic description…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Stefan Scheidl , Valerii M. Vinokur

We study the noise induced transport of an overdamped Brownian particle in frictional ratchet systems in the presence of external Gaussian white noise fluctuations. The analytical expressions for current and diffusion coefficient are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Raishma Krishnan , Debasis Dan , A. M. Jayannavar

We study the coherence of transport of an overdamped Brownian particle in frictional ratchet system in the presence of external Gaussian white noise fluctuations. The analytical expressions for the particle velocity and diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Raishma Krishnan , Debasis Dan , A. M. Jayannavar

Radiation-induced ratchet electric currents have been studied theoretically in graphene with a periodic noncentrosymmetric lateral potential. The ratchet current generated under normal incidence is shown to consist of two contributions, one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 A. V. Nalitov , L. E. Golub , E. L. Ivchenko

Using the framework of generalized exclusion processes we study mixtures of passive and active particles interacting by steric repulsion. The particles move in a pore with periodically modulated aperture, which is modeled by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-14 Frantisek Slanina , Miroslav Kotrla

In condensed matter physics, one of the major topics is to find out and classify interesting novel topological matters and phenomena. Topologically nontrivial systems can also be achieved by using periodical driving fields. On the other…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Jin-Yu Zou , Bang-Gui Liu

The continued-fraction method to solve classical Fokker--Planck equations has been adapted to tackle quantum master equations of the Caldeira--Leggett type. This can be done taking advantage of the phase-space (Wigner) representation of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. L. Garcia-Palacios , D. Zueco

The Constrained Adiabatic Trajectory Method (CATM) allows us to compute solutions of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation using the Floquet formalism and Fourier decomposition, using matrix manipulation within a non-orthogonal basis…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-20 Arnaud Leclerc , Georges Jolicard , John P. Killingbeck

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…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-09 Arjun S R , Ronald Benjamin

We consider a randomly flashing ratchet, where the potential acting can be switched to another at random. Using coupled Fokker-Planck equations, we formulate the expressions of quantities measuring dynamics and thermodynamics. Extended…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-07 Xining Xu , Yunxin Zhang

We study the behavior of colloidal active particles interacting via steric repulsion in various quasi-1D geometries. We mainly focus on active particles with high P\'eclet number. We discuss 3 phenomena closely tied to those systems:…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-15 Šimon Pajger , František Slanina

We study the evolution of the energy and magnetic moment of a quantum charged particle placed in a homogeneous magnetic field, when this field changes adiabatically its sign. We show that after a single magnetic field passage through zero…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-11 Viktor V. Dodonov , Alexandre V. Dodonov

We argue that the phase across an asymmetric dc SQUID threaded by a magnetic flux can experience an effective ratchet (periodic and asymmetric) potential. Under an external ac current, a rocking ratchet mechanism operates whereby one sign…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Ivar Zapata , Roland Bartussek , Fernando Sols , Peter Hänggi

Adiabatic invariants are introduced and shown to provide an approximate second integral of motion for the non-integrable Dicke model, in the energy region where the system exhibits a regular dynamics. This low-energy region is always…

We present a theoretical investigation of the stochastic dynamics of a damped particle in a tilted periodic potential with a double well per period. By applying the matrix continued fraction technique to the Fokker-Planck equation in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-08-15 Martin Žonda , Wolfgang Belzig , Edward Goldobin , Tomáš Novotný

We present an analysis of the quantum adiabatic algorithm for solving hard instances of 3-SAT (an NP-complete problem) in terms of Random Matrix Theory (RMT). We determine the global regularity of the spectral fluctuations of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 David R. Mitchell , Christoph Adami , Waynn Lue , Colin P. Williams

We study the distribution of active, noninteracting particles over two bulk states separated by a ratchet potential. By solving the steady-state Smoluchowski equations in a flux-free setting, we show that the ratchet potential affects the…

We numerically investigate the effect of a periodic array of asymmetric obstacles in a two-dimensional active nematic. We find that activity in conjunction with the asymmetry leads to a ratchet effect or unidirectional flow of the fluid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-25 Cody D. Schimming , C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt

Ratchet effect -- a {\it dc} current induced by the electromagnetic wave impinging on the spatially modulated two-dimensional (2D) electron liquid -- occurs when the wave amplitude is spatially modulated with the same wave vector as the 2D…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-01 I. V. Rozhansky , V. Yu. Kachorovskii , M. S. Shur