Directed transport in periodically rocked random sawtooth potentials
Abstract
We study directed transport of overdamped particles in a periodically rocked random sawtooth potential. Two transport regimes can be identified which are characterized by a nonzero value of the average velocity of particles and a zero value, respectively. The properties of directed transport in these regimes are investigated both analytically and numerically in terms of a random sawtooth potential and a periodically varying driving force. Precise conditions for the occurrence of transition between these two transport regimes are derived and analyzed in detail.
- Publication:
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Physical Review E
- Pub Date:
- May 2009
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevE.79.051102
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0902.4626
- Bibcode:
- 2009PhRvE..79e1102D
- Keywords:
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- 05.60.Cd;
- 05.10.Gg;
- Classical transport;
- Stochastic analysis methods;
- Condensed Matter - Disordered Systems and Neural Networks;
- Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics
- E-Print:
- 18 pages, 7 figures