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A simple model of the two-state ratchet type is proposed for molecular chemical engines that convert chemical free energy into mechanical work and vice versa. The engine works by catalyzing a chemical reaction and turning a rotor.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-22 Kazuo Sasaki , Ryo Kanada , Satoshi Amari

Biological machines like molecular motors and enzymes operate in dynamic cycles representable as stochastic flows on networks. Current stochastic dynamics describes such flows on fixed networks. Here, we develop a scalable approach to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-02 Ying-Jen Yang , Ken A. Dill

We study the energetics of isothermal ratchets which are driven by a chemical reaction between two states and operate in contact with a single heat bath of constant temperature. We discuss generic aspects of energy transduction such as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrea Parmeggiani , Frank Jülicher , Armand Ajdari , Jacques Prost

By conditioning a stochastic process on the value of an observable, one obtains a new stochastic process with different properties. We apply this idea in the context of active matter, and condition interacting self-propelled particles on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-04 Francesco Cagnetta , Emil Mallmin

Dynamics of systems of structured particles consisting of potentially interacting material points is considered in the framework of classical mechanics. Equations of interaction and motion of structured particles have been derived. The…

General Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 V. M. Somsikov

We derive the general probability distribution function of stochastic work for quantum Otto engines in which both the isochoric and driving processes are irreversible due to finite time duration. The time-dependent power fluctuations,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-24 Guangqian Jiao , Shoubao Zhu , Jizhou He , Yongli Ma , Jianhui Wang

Impact phenomena of small clusters subject to thermal fluctuations are numerically investigated. From the molecular dynamics simulation for colliding two identical clusters, it is found that the restitution coefficient for head-on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Hiroto Kuninaka , Hisao Hayakawa

We investigate in this work the effects of interaction on the fluctuation of empirical measures. The systems with positive definite interaction potentials tend to exhibit smaller fluctuation compared to the fluctuation in standard Monte…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Lei Li , Jiaheng Chen

A simple tight-coupling model of a molecular chemical engine is proposed. The efficiency of the chemical engine and its average velocity can be explicitly calculated. The diffusion constant is evaluated approximately using the fluctuation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi

We present a new class of thermal ratchets operating under the action of a symmetry breaking non-Hermitian perturbation which rectifies thermal fluctuations, and driven by a unbiased periodic force. The peculiar non-Hermitian dynamics which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Perez-Madrid , T. Alarcon , J. M. Rubi

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 address the velocity fluctuations of fastly moving cracks in stressed materials. One possible mechanism for such fluctuations is the interaction of the main crack with micro cracks (irrespective whether these are existing material…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Bouchbinder , D. Kessler , I. Procaccia

We study the fluctuation electromagnetic interaction in a system of two rotating electrically neutral nonmagnetic particles with allowance for relativistic retardation effect. The particles are assumed to have different temperatures being…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-26 A. A. Kyasov , G. V. Dedkov

We discuss a problem of optimization of the energetic efficiency of a simple rocked ratchet. We concentrate on a low-temperature case in which the particle's motion in a ratchet potential is deterministic. We show that the energetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. M. Sokolov

Efficiency of generation of net unidirectional current in an adiabatically driven symmetric periodic potential system is studied. The efficiency shows a maximum, in the case of an inhomogeneous system with spatially varying periodic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Debasis Dan , Mangal C. Mahato , A. M. Jayannavar

This article reports on an experimental study of the fluctuations of energy flux between a granular gas and a small driven harmonic oscillator. The DC-motor driving this system is used simultaneously as actuator and probe. The statistics of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-12 Antoine Naert

The energetic efficiency of an overdamped Brownian particle in a saw tooth potential in the presence of time asymmetric forcing is studied in the adiabatic limit. An error made in the earlier work on the same problem in literature is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Raishma Krishnan , Soumen Roy , A. M. Jayannavar

We model an overdamped Brownian particle that is subject to resetting facilitated by a ratchet potential on a spatially periodic domain. This asymmetric potential switches on with a constant rate, but switches off again only upon the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-25 Connor Roberts , Emir Sezik , Eloise Lardet

Biologically driven non-equilibrium fluctuations are often characterized by their non-Gaussianity or by an "effective temperature", which is frequency dependent and higher than the ambient temperature. We address these two measures…

Biological Physics · Physics 2011-06-16 Eyal Ben-Isaac , YongKeun Park , Gabriel Popescu , Frank L. H. Brown , Nir S. Gov , Yair Shokef

Properties of transport of molecular motors are investigated. A simplified model based on the concept of Brownian ratchets is applied. We analyze a stochastic equation of motion by means of numerical methods. The transport is systematically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-07 Lukasz Machura , Marcin Kostur , Jerzy Luczka