Optimal efficiency condition and current reversals in forced underdamped ratchets

DOI10.1016/S0378-4371(02)00915-9zbMath0997.82030OpenAlexW1977391008MaRDI QIDQ1611144

K. Sumithra, T. Sintes

Publication date: 21 August 2002

Published in: Physica A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0378-4371(02)00915-9

zbMATH Keywords

stochastic differential equationenergy transformationmassive Brownian particle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of stochastic analysis (to PDEs, etc.) (60H30) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31)

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• Nonlinear physics of complex systems: current status and future trends. Based on the Heraeus seminar, Bad Honnef, Germany, October 1995
• Quantum Ratchets
• Efficiency optimization in forced ratchets due to thermal fluctuations

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