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An asymmetric Brownian particle subjected to an external time-dependent force may acquire a net drift velocity, and thus operate as a motor or ratchet, even if the external force is represented by an unbiased time-periodic function or by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-14 A. V. Plyukhin

We study analytically and numerically the overdamped, deterministic dynamics of a chain of {\it charged}, interacting particles driven by a longitudinal alternating electric field and additionally interacting with a smooth ratchet…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-16 S. I. Denisov , E. S. Denisova , P. Hänggi

Diffusion-limited reaction A+A->inert with anisotropic hopping on the d=1 lattice, is solved exactly for a simultaneous updating, discrete time-step dynamics. Diffusion-dominated processes slow down as the anisotropy increases. For large…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-10-13 Vladimir Privman

Chaos is an inherently dynamical phenomenon traditionally studied for trajectories that are either permanently erratic or transiently influenced by permanently erratic ones lying on a set of measure zero. The latter gives rise to the final…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-11-12 Adilson E. Motter , Marton Gruiz , Gyorgy Karolyi , Tamas Tel

We study diffusion of the Josephson phase in the asymmetric SQUID subjected to a time-periodic current and pierced by an external magnetic flux. We analyze a relation between phase diffusion and quality of transport characterized by the dc…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-01 Jakub Spiechowicz , Jerzy Łuczka

Using computer simulations, we study a two-dimensional system of sterically interacting self-mobile run-and-tumble disk-shaped particles with an underlying periodic quasi-one-dimensional asymmetric substrate, and show that a rich variety of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-06 D. McDermott , C. J. Olson Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt

We investigate the statistical fluctuations of currents in chaotic quantum dots induced by pumping and rectification at finite temperature and in the presence of dephasing. In open quantum dots, dc currents can be generated by the action of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Martinez-Mares , C. H. Lewenkopf , E. R. Mucciolo

Motivated by experiments with current biased superconducting atomic point contacts the general problem of nonadiabatic transitions between adiabatic surfaces in presence of strong dissipation is studied. For a single channel device the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-05 Hans Fritz , Joachim Ankerhold

Dichotomous noise appears in a wide variety of physical and mathematical models. It has escaped attention that the standard results for the long time properties cannot be applied when unstable fixed points are crossed in the asymptotic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 I. Bena , C. Van den Broeck , R. Kawai , Katja Lindenberg

We consider the charge shuttle proposed by Gorelik {\em et al.} driven by a time-dependent voltage bias. In the case of asymmetric setup, the system behaves as a rachet. For pure AC drive, the rectified current shows a complex frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Pistolesi , Rosario Fazio

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

Two replicas of spatially extended chaotic systems synchronize to a common spatio-temporal chaotic state when coupled above a critical strength. As a prototype of each single spatio-temporal chaotic system a lattice of maps interacting via…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-09-23 M. Cencini , C. J. Tessone , A. Torcini

The regular and chaotic behavior of modified Rayleigh-Duffing oscillator is studied. We consider in this paper the dynamics of Modified Rayleigh Duffing oscillator. The harmonic balance method are used to find the amplitudes of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-03-28 C. H. Miwadinou , A. V. Monwanou , C. Ainamon , J. B. Chabi Orou

Understanding and controlling quantum transport in low-dimensional systems is pivotal for heat management at the nanoscale. One promising strategy to obtain the desired transport properties is to engineer particular spectral structures. In…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-04-27 Cecilia Chiaracane , Archak Purkayastha , Mark T. Mitchison , John Goold

We investigate the dynamics under diabatic expansions/compressions of linear ion chains.Combining a dynamical normal-mode harmonic approximation with the invariant-based inverse-engineering technique, we design protocols that minimize the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 M. Palmero , S. Martínez-Garaot , J. Alonso , J. P. Home , J. G. Muga

The full family of discrete logistic maps has been widely studied both as a canonical example of the period-doubling route to chaos, and as a model of natural processes. In this paper we present a study of the stochastic process described…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Kimberly Ayers , Ami Radunskaya

Dynamical phase transitions (DPTs) in the space of trajectories are one of the most intriguing phenomena of nonequilibrium physics, but their nature in realistic high-dimensional systems remains puzzling. Here we observe for the first time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-07 N. Tizón-Escamilla , C. Pérez-Espigares , P. L. Garrido , P. I. Hurtado

Autonomous randomly coupled neural networks display a transition to chaos at a critical coupling strength. We here investigate the effect of a time-varying input on the onset of chaos and the resulting consequences for information…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-21 Jannis Schuecker , Sven Goedeke , Moritz Helias

In this thesis, it is presented a set of results in adiabatic dynamics (closed and open system) and transitionless quantum driving that promote some advances in our understanding on quantum control and Hamiltonian inverse engineering. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-27 Alan C. Santos

It is generally believed that a generic system can be reversibly transformed from one state into another by sufficiently slow change of parameters. A standard argument favoring this assertion is based on a possibility to expand the energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 Anatoli Polkovnikov , Vladimir Gritsev