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The transport of interacting Brownian particles in a periodic asymmetric (ratchet) substrate is studied numerically. In a zero-temperature regime, the system behaves as a reversible step motor, undergoing multiple sign reversals of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-12-31 Rogério M. da Silva , Clécio C. de Souza Silva , Sérgio Coutinho

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

A model of Brownian particles with the ability to take up energy from the environment, to store it in an internal depot, and to convert internal energy into kinetic energy of motion, is discussed. The general dynamics outlined in Sect. 2 is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Benno Tilch , Frank Schweitzer , Werner Ebeling

We analyze the dynamics of Brownian ratchets in a confined environment. The motion of the particles is described by a Fick-Jakobs kinetic equation in which the presence of boundaries is modeled by means of an entropic potential. The cases…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-23 Paolo Malgaretti , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , J. Miguel Rubi

We consider Brownian particles with the ability to take up energy from the environment, to store it in an internal depot, and to convert internal energy into kinetic energy of motion. Provided a supercritical supply of energy, these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Frank Schweitzer , Benno Tilch , Werner Ebeling

Transport properties of overdamped Brownian paricles in a rocked thermal ratchet with space dependent friction coefficient is studied. By tuning the parameters, the direction of current exhibit multiple reversals, both as a function of the…

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

We rigorously investigate the quantum dissipative dynamics of a ratchet system described by a periodic potential model based on the Caldeira-Leggett Hamiltonian with a biharmonic force. In this model, we use the reduced hierarchy equations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-22 Akihito Kato , Yoshitaka Tanimura

We study by simulation a mixture of active (run-and-tumble) and passive (Brownian) particles with repulsive exclusion interactions in one dimension, subject to a ratchet (smoothed sawtooth) potential. Such a potential is known to rectify…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-27 Jean-François Derivaux , Robert L. Jack , Michael E. Cates

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

Quantum Brownian motion in ratchet potentials is investigated by means of an approach based on a duality relation. This relation links the long-time dynamics in a tilted ratchet potential in the presence of dissipation with the one in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-06-13 J. Peguiron , M. Grifoni

Classical Hamiltonian ratchets have been recently successfully realized using cold atoms in driven optical lattices. Here we study the current rectification of the motion of a quantum particle in a periodic potential exposed to an external…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Denisov , L. Morales-Molina , S. Flach

A duality relation between the long-time dynamics of a quantum Brownian particle in a tilted ratchet potential and a driven dissipative tight-binding model is reported. It relates a situation of weak dissipation in one model to strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 J. Peguiron , M. Grifoni

We consider the motion of a overdamped Brownian particle in periodic asymmetric potential with space dependent friction coefficient. In the presence of external time periodic forcing, the system shows multiple current reversals on varying…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Debasis Dan , A. M. Jayannavar , Mangal C. Mahato

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

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

The transport of a walker in rocking feedback-controlled ratchets are investigated. The walker consists of two coupled "feet" that allow the interchange of the order of the particles while the walker moves. In the underdamped case, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-09 Tianfu Gao , Zhigang Zheng , Jincan Chen

The transitory and stationary behavior of a quantum chaotic ratchet consisting of a biharmonic potential under the effect of different drivings in contact with a thermal environment is studied. For weak forcing and finite $\hbar$, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-31 Gabriel G. Carlo , Leonardo Ermann , F. Borondo , R. M. Benito

Quantum mechanical motion of a particle in a periodic asymmetric potential is studied theoretically at zero temperature. It is shown based on semi-classical approximation that the tunneling probability from one local minimum to the next…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Gen Tatara , Macoto Kikuchi , Satoshi Yukawa , Hiroshi Matsukawa

The realization of a directed current for a quantum particle in a flashing asymmetric potential is studied. It is found that a positive current, i.e. in the direction expected for a conventional diffusive ratchet, can be attained at short…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Emil Lundh , Mats Wallin

The directed transport of an overdamped Brownian motor moving in a spatially periodic potential that lacks reflection symmetry (i.e. a ratchet potential) is studied when driven by thermal and dichotomic nonequilibrium noise in the presence…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-08-05 Lukasz Machura , Jerzy Luczka , Peter Talkner , Peter Hänggi
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