Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2007-06-11
Phys. Rev. E 76, 061113 (2007)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
LaTeX, 11 pages, 13 figures. Material from arXiv:0706.4466 added. Improved version to appear in Phys Rev E
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.76.061113
Closed-loop or feedback control ratchets use information about the state of the system to operate with the aim of maximizing the performance of the system. In this paper we investigate the effects of a time delay in the feedback for a protocol that performs an instantaneous maximization of the center-of-mass velocity. For the one and the few particle cases the flux decreases with increasing delay, as an effect of the decorrelation of the present state of the system with the information that the controller uses, but the delayed closed-loop protocol succeeds to perform better than its open-loop counterpart provided the delays are smaller than the characteristic times of the Brownian ratchet. For the many particle case, we also show that for small delays the center-of-mass velocity decreases for increasing delays. However, for large delays we find the surprising result that the presence of the delay can improve the performance of the nondelayed feedback ratchet and the flux can attain the maximum value obtained with the optimal periodic protocol. This phenomenon is the result of the emergence of a dynamical regime where the presence of the delayed feedback stabilizes one quasiperiodic solution or several (multistability), which resemble the solutions obtained in the so-called threshold protocol. Our analytical and numerical results point towards the feasibility of an experimental implementation of a feedback controlled ratchet that performs equal or better than its optimal open-loop version.
Cao Francisco J.
Feito M.
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