Nonlinear Sciences – Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Scientific paper
2012-01-23
Chaos 21, 047503 (2011)
Nonlinear Sciences
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
6 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.3661160
We study the transport properties for a walker on a ratchet potential. The walker consists of two particles coupled by a bistable potential that allow the interchange of the order of the particles while moving through a one-dimensional asymmetric periodic ratchet potential. We consider the stochastic dynamics of the walker on a ratchet with an external periodic forcing, in the overdamped case. The coupling of the two particles corresponds to a single effective particle, describing the internal degree of freedom, in a bistable potential. This double-well potential is subjected to both a periodic forcing and noise, and therefore is able to provide a realization of the phenomenon of stochastic resonance. The main result is that there is an optimal amount of noise where the amplitude of the periodic response of the system is maximum, a signal of stochastic resonance, and that precisely for this optimal noise the average velocity of the walker is maximal, implying a strong link between stochastic resonance and the ratchet effect.
Alatriste Fernando R.
Mateos Jose L.
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