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Pis'ma v Zhurnal Èksperimental'noi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, 2004, Volume 79, Issue 8, Pages 475–479
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This article is cited in 18 scientific papers (total in 18 papers)
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Mechanism for the appearance of a high-efficiency Brownian motor with fluctuating potential
V. M. Rozenbaum Institute of Surface Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Abstract:
A version of a Brownian motor (system generating a unidirectional motion of a Brownian particle in an asymmetric fluctuating potential) is considered for the case where the potential consists of an asymmetric periodic component undergoing random shifts by a half-period $L$ with a certain frequency and the potential of an external force $F$. The high efficiency of such a motor (ratio of the useful work against the load force $F$ to the energy imparted to the particle due to the potential shifts) is due to a high and narrow barrier, as well as to a smooth arbitrarily shaped potential relief repeated with an energy shift on both half-periods $L$. Simple analytic expressions are obtained for the flux and efficiency as functions of the load force over a wide frequency range.
Received: 09.02.2004 Revised: 10.03.2004
Citation:
V. M. Rozenbaum, “Mechanism for the appearance of a high-efficiency Brownian motor with fluctuating potential”, Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 79:8 (2004), 475–479; JETP Letters, 79:8 (2004), 388–391
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