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A Brownian gyrator is a system in which a particle experiences thermal noise from two distinct heat baths. This nonequilibrium setup inherently generates a nonzero torque, leading to gyrating motion around a potential energy minimum. As a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-27 Iman Abdoli , Abhinav Sharma , Hartmut Löwen

Directed transport of overdamped Brownian particles driven by fractional Gaussian noises is investigated in asymmetrically periodic potentials. By using Langevin dynamics simulations, we find that rectified currents occur in the absence of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 Bao-quan Ai , Ya-feng He , Wei-rong Zhong

We investigated three models of Brownian motors which convert rotational diffusion into directed translational motion by switching on and off a potential. In the first model a spatially asymmetric potential generates directed translational…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Brian Geislinger , Ryoichi Kawai

It is well-known that Brownian ratchets can exhibit current reversals, wherein the sign of the current switches as a function of the driving frequency. We introduce a spatial discretization of such a two-dimensional Brownian ratchet to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-07 Nils E. Strand , Rueih-Sheng Fu , Todd R. Gingrich

Electric current fluctuations are one type of unavoidable machine imperfections,and induce magnetic-field perturbations as a source of instabilities in accelerators. This paper presents measurement-based methodology of modeling the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2008-03-18 P. S. Yoon

Living cells are known to generate non-Gaussian active fluctuations significantly larger than thermal fluctuations owing to various active processes. Understanding the effect of these active fluctuations on various physicochemical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-26 Govind Paneru , Jin Tae Park , Hyuk Kyu Pak

We explore the transport features of a Brownian particle that walks in a periodic ratchet potential that is coupled with a spatially varying temperature background. Since the viscous friction of the medium decreases as the temperature of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-09 Solomon Fekade Duki , Mesfin Asfaw Taye

A Brownian harmonic oscillator, which dissipates energy either by friction or via emission of electromagnetic radiation, is considered. This Brownian emitter is driven by the surrounding thermo-quantum fluctuations, which are theoretically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-17 R. Tsekov

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

The noise-flatness-induced hypersensitive transport of overdamped Brownian particles in a tilted ratchet system driven by multiplicative nonequilibrium three-level Markovian noise and additive white noise is considered. At low temperatures…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Romi Mankin , Astrid Haljas , Risto Tammelo , Dmitri Martila

The transport phenomenon (movement and diffusion) of inertia Brownian particles in a periodic potential with non-Gaussian noise is investigated. It is found that proper noise intensity Q will promote particles directional movement(or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-20 Bing Wang , Xiaoxiao Zhang , Yajuan Sun , Zhongwei Qu , Xuechao Li

A reversal of the particle current in rocking Brownian motors was predicted more than 20 years ago; however, an experimental verification and a deeper insight into the underlying mechanisms remained elusive. Here, we investigate the high…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-12 Christian Schwemmer , Stefan Fringes , Urs Duerig , Yu Kyoung Ryu Cho , Armin W. Knoll

We discuss an autonomous motor based on a Brownian particle driven from thermal equilibrium by periodic in time variation of the internal potential through which the particle interacts with molecules of the surrounding thermal bath. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-23 A. V. Plyukhin

We use macroscopic fluctuation theory (MFT) to analyse current fluctuations in a non-interacting Brownian gas with one or more partially absorbing targets within a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \R^d$. We proceed by coarse-graining a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-30 Paul C Bressloff

Diffusion and rectification of Brownian particles powered by a rotating wheel are numerically investigated in a two-dimensional channel. The nonequilibrium driving comes from the rotating wheel, which can break thermodynamical equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-24 Bao-quan Ai

We study the transport properties of an overdamped Brownian particle which is simultaneously in contact with two thermal baths. The first bath is modeled by an additive thermal noise at temperature $T_A$. The second bath is associated with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 Raishma Krishnan , Sanjay Puri , Arun M. Jayannavar

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…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-19 Narender Khatri , P. S. Burada

A novel transport phenomenon is identified that is induced by inertial Brownian particles which move in simple one-dimensional, symmetric periodic potentials under the influence of both a time periodic and a constant, biasing driving force.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-06-13 L. Machura , M. Kostur , P. Talkner , J. Luczka , P. Hanggi

In recent literature there has been a lot of interest in the phenomena of noise induced transport in the absence of an average bias occurring in spatially periodic systems far from equilibrium. One of the main motivations in this area is to…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Raishma Krishnan , A. M. Jayannavar

Many networks must maintain synchrony despite the fact that they operate in noisy environments. Important examples are stochastic inertial oscillators, which are known to exhibit fluctuations with broad tails in many applications, including…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-12-03 Jason Hindes , Philippe Jacquod , Ira B. Schwartz