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Rectification of interacting Brownian particles is investigated in a two-dimensional asymmetric channel in the presence of an external periodic driving force. The periodic driving force can break the thermodynamic equilibrium and induces…

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Micro- and nano-swimmers moving in a fluid solvent confined by structures that produce entropic barriers are often described by overdamped active Brownian particle dynamics, where viscous effects are large and inertia plays no role.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-28 Narender Khatri , Raymond Kapral

We study the phenomena of noise induced transport in frictional ratchet systems. For this we consider a Brownian particle moving in a space dependent frictional medium in the presence of external white noise fluctuations. To get the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-07-13 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

We study the one-dimensional motion of a Brownian particle inside a confinement described by two reactive boundaries which can partially reflect or absorb the particle. Understanding the effects of such boundaries is important in physics,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-30 Arnab Pal , Isaac Pérez Castillo , Anupam Kundu

We study the evolution of a collection of individuals subject to Brownian diffusion, reproduction and disappearance. In particular, we focus on the case where the individuals are initially prepared at equilibrium within a confined geometry.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-01-06 Andrea Zoia , Eric Dumonteil , Alain Mazzolo , Clélia de Mulatier , Alberto Rosso

A distinguishing feature of active particles is the nature of the non-equilibrium noise driving their dynamics. Control of these noise properties is, therefore, of both fundamental and applied interest. We demonstrate emergent tuning of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-05 Aniruddh Murali , Pritha Dolai , Ashwini Krishna , K. Vijay Kumar , Shashi Thutupalli

We study the rectified transport of underdamped active noninteracting particles in an asymmetric periodic potential. It is found that the ratchet effect of active noninteracting particles occurs in a single direction (along the easy…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-30 Bao-quan Ai , Feng-guo Li

In systems possessing spatial or dynamical symmetry breaking, Brownian motion combined with symmetric external input signals, deterministic or random, alike, can assist directed motion of particles at the submicron scales. In such cases,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-06-05 Peter Hanggi , Fabio Marchesoni

The diffusive transport of biased Brownian particles in a two-dimensional symmetric channel is investigated numerically considering both the no-flow and the reflection boundary conditions at the channel boundaries. Here, the geometrical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-09-10 Narender Khatri , P. S. Burada

We present a rigorous mathematical approach of two species channel transport within the framework of stochastic thermodynamics, which explains the impact of interparticle in-channel interactions. Different from mean field approaches, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-23 Wolfgang Rudolf Bauer

We analytically investigate the dynamic behavior of an an-isotropic active Brownian particle under various stochastic resetting protocols in two dimensions. The motion of shape-asymmetric active Brownian particles in two dimensions leads to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-26 Anirban Ghosh , Sudipta Mandal , Subhasish Chaki

Transport of a Brownian particle moving in a periodic potential is investigated in the presence of symmetric unbiased external force. The viscous medium is alternately in contact with the two heat reservoirs. We present the analytical…

Biological Physics · Physics 2010-03-22 Bao-quan Ai , Liqiu Wang , Lianggang Liu

Brownian motion of an array of harmonically coupled particles subject to a periodic substrate potential and driven by an external bias is investigated. In the linear response limit (small bias), the coupling between particles may enhance…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Zhigang Zheng , Bambi Hu , Gang Hu

The problem of transport through nanochannels is one of the major questions in cell biology, with a wide range of applications. Brownian ratchets are fundamental in various biochemical processes, and are roughly divided into two categories:…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-07-24 Anna Lappala , Alessio Zaccone , Eugene M. Terentjev

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…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-11 Massimiliano Semeraro , Giuseppe Gonnella , Eugenio Lippiello , Alessandro Sarracino

We consider the impact of inertia on biased Brownian motion of point particles in a two-dimensional channel with sinusoidally varying width. If the time scales of the problem separate, the adiabatic elimination of the transverse degrees of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-20 Steffen Martens , Igor M. Sokolov , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

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 dynamics of overdamped Brownian particles diffusing in conservative force fields and undergoing stochastic resetting to a given location with a generic space-dependent rate of resetting. We present a systematic approach…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-15 Édgar Roldán , Shamik Gupta