Coexistence of absolute negative mobility and anomalous diffusion
Abstract
Using extensive numerical studies we demonstrate that absolute negative mobility of a Brownian particle (i.e. the net motion into the direction opposite to a constant biasing force acting around zero bias) does coexist with anomalous diffusion (AD). The latter is characterised in terms of a nonlinear scaling with time of the mean-square deviation of the particle position. Such AD covers ‘coherent’ motion (i.e. the position dynamics x(t) approaches in evolving time a constant dispersion), ballistic diffusion, subdiffusion, superdiffusion and hyperdiffusion. In providing evidence for this coexistence we consider a paradigmatic model of an inertial Brownian particle moving in a one-dimensional symmetric periodic potential being driven by both an unbiased time-periodic force and a constant bias. This very setup allows for various sorts of different physical realisations.
- Publication:
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New Journal of Physics
- Pub Date:
- August 2019
- DOI:
- 10.1088/1367-2630/ab3764
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1905.11370
- Bibcode:
- 2019NJPh...21h3029S
- Keywords:
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- Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics;
- Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics;
- Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter
- E-Print:
- New J. Phys. 21, 083029 (2019)