Brownian motors: current fluctuations and rectification efficiency

Details Brownian motors: current fluctuations and rectification efficiency Brownian motors: current fluctuations and rectification efficiency

2004-09-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0409314v1

Phys. Rev. E 70, 061105 (2004)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

9 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.70.061105

With this work we investigate an often neglected aspect of Brownian motor transport: The r\^{o}le of fluctuations of the noise-induced current and its consequences for the efficiency of rectifying noise. In doing so, we consider a Brownian inertial motor that is driven by an unbiased monochromatic, time-periodic force and thermal noise. Typically, we find that the asymptotic, time- and noise-averaged transport velocities are small, possessing rather broad velocity fluctuations. This implies a corresponding poor performance for the rectification power. However, for tailored profiles of the ratchet potential and appropriate drive parameters, we can identify a drastic enhancement of the rectification efficiency. This regime is marked by persistent, uni-directional motion of the Brownian motor with few back-turns, only. The corresponding asymmetric velocity distribution is then rather narrow, with a support that predominantly favors only one sign for the velocity.

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