Motion in a rocked ratchet with spatially periodic friction

Debasis Dan, Mangal C Mahato and A.m Jayannavar

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2001, vol. 296, issue 3, 375-390

Abstract: We present a detailed study of transport and energetics of a Brownian particle moving in a periodic potential in the presence of an adiabatic external periodic drive. The particle is considered to move in a medium with periodic space dependent friction with the same periodicity as that of the potential but with a phase lag. We obtain several results. Most of the results arise due to the medium being inhomogeneous and are sensitive to the phase lag. When the potential is symmetric we show that the efficiency of energy transduction can be maximized as a function of noise strength or temperature. However, in the case of asymmetric potential the temperature may or may not facilitate the energy conversion. But current reversals can be obtained as a function of temperature and the amplitude of the periodic drive. The reentrant behaviour of the current can also be seen as a function of phase lag.

Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(01)00137-6

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