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We study diffusion properties of an inertial Brownian motor moving on a ratchet substrate, i.e. a periodic structure with broken reflection symmetry. The motor is driven by an unbiased time-periodic symmetric force which takes the system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-25 Jakub Spiechowicz , Marcin Kostur , Jerzy Łuczka

The recognition that large classes of quantum many-body systems have limited entanglement in the ground and low-lying excited states led to dramatic advances in their numerical simulation via so-called tensor networks. However, global…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-02 Marek M. Rams , Michael Zwolak

We introduce a numerical tensor-network method to compute the statistics of the charge transferred across an interface partitioning an interacting one-dimensional many-body lattice system with $U(1)$ symmetry. Our approach is based on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Hari Kumar Yadalam , Mark T. Mitchison

The "ratchet principle" asserts that non-equilibrium systems which violate parity symmetry generically exhibit steady-state currents. As recently shown, there are exceptions to this principle, due to the existence of hidden time-reversal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-15 Jessica Metzger , Sunghan Ro , Julien Tailleur

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

Dynamics in correlated quantum matter is a hard problem, as its exact solution generally involves a computational effort that grows exponentially with the number of constituents. While a remarkable progress has been witnessed in recent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-28 Roberto Verdel , Markus Schmitt , Yi-Ping Huang , Petr Karpov , Markus Heyl

We study the flashing ratchet model of a Brownian motor, which consists in cyclical switching between the Fokker-Planck equation with an asymmetric ratchet-like potential and the pure diffusion equation. We show that the motor really…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-01-13 Dmitry Vorotnikov

We study exclusion processes on the integer lattice in which particles change their velocities due to stickiness. Specifically, whenever two or more particles occupy adjacent sites, they stick together for an extended period of time, and…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-11 Miklós Z. Rácz , Mykhaylo Shkolnikov

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 present an analogy between the classic Gambler's Ruin problem and the thermally-activated dynamics in periodic Brownian ratchets. By considering each periodic unit of the ratchet as a site chain, we calculated the transition…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 X. Z. Cheng , M. B. A. Jalil , Hwee Kuan Lee

Tensor networks are a powerful tool for many-body ground states with limited entanglement. These methods can nonetheless fail for certain time-dependent processes - such as quantum transport or quenches - where entanglement growth is linear…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-20 Gabriela Wojtowicz , Justin E. Elenewski , Marek M. Rams , Michael Zwolak

A ratchet model for coupled Brownian motors, inspired by the motion of individual two-headed molecular motors on cytoskeletal filaments, is proposed. Such motors are modeled as two elastically coupled Brownian particles, each of which moves…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Debasis Dan , A. M. Jayannavar , Gautam I. Menon

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

We show that directed ratchet transport of a driven overdamped Brownian particle subjected to a spatially periodic and symmetric potential can be reliably controlled by tailoring a biharmonic temporal force, in coherence with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 Pedro J. Martínez , Ricardo Chacón

Tensor network algorithms provide a suitable route for tackling real-time dependent problems in lattice gauge theories, enabling the investigation of out-of-equilibrium dynamics. We analyze a U(1) lattice gauge theory in (1+1) dimensions in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-03-07 T. Pichler , M. Dalmonte , E. Rico , P. Zoller , S. Montangero

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

The problem of Brownian motion in a periodic potential, under the influence of external forcing, which is either random or periodic in time, is studied in this paper. Multiscale techniques are used to derive general formulae for the steady…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. A. Pavliotis

Transport of rodlike particles in confinement environments of macromolecular networks plays crucial roles in many important biological processes and technological applications. The relevant understanding has been limited to thin rods with…

We study analytically the tracer particle mobility in single-file systems with distributed friction constants. Our system serves as a prototype for non-equilibrium, heterogeneous, strongly interacting Brownian systems. The long time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Michael A. Lomholt , Tobias Ambjornsson

Driven non-equilibrium lattice models have wide-ranging applications in contexts such as mass transport, traffic flow, and transport in biological systems. In this work, we investigate the steady-state properties of a one-dimensional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-16 Swastik Majumder , Mustansir Barma