Quantization and Corrections of Adiabatic Particle Transport in a Periodic Ratchet Potential

Details Quantization and Corrections of Adiabatic Particle Transport in a Periodic Ratchet Potential Quantization and Corrections of Adiabatic Particle Transport in a Periodic Ratchet Potential

2002-01-08

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0201116v2

Europhys. Lett. 59, 324 (2002)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

8 pages

Scientific paper

10.1209/epl/i2002-00197-2

We study the transport of an overdamped particle adiabatically driven by an asymmetric potential which is periodic in both space and time. We develop an adiabatic perturbation theory after transforming the Fokker-Planck equation into a time-dependent hermitian problem, and reveal an analogy with quantum adiabatic particle transport. An analytical expression is obtained for the ensemble average of the particle velocity in terms of the Berry phase of the Bloch states. Its time average is shown to be quantized as a Chern number in the deterministic or tight-binding limit, with exponentially small corrections. In the opposite limit, where the thermal energy dominates the ratchet potential, a formula for the average velocity is also obtained, showing a second order dependence on the potential.

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