Entropic transport: a test bed for the Fick-Jacobs approximation

DOI10.1098/RSTA.2009.0068MaRDI QIDQ3559908zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors P. Sekhar Burada, Gerhard Schmid, Peter Hänggi

Publication date 8 May 2010

Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.4338

zbMATH Keywords

Brownian motionFick-Jacobs equationentropic transport

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

Abstract: Biased diffusive transport of Brownian particles through irregularly shaped, narrow confining quasi-one-dimensional structures is investigated. The complexity of the higher dimensional diffusive dynamics is reduced by means of the so-called Fick-Jacobs approximation, yielding an effective one-dimensional stochastic dynamics. Accordingly, the elimination of transverse, equilibrated degrees of freedom stemming from geometrical confinements and/or bottlenecks cause entropic potential barriers which the particles have to overcome when moving forward noisily. The applicability and the validity of the reduced kinetic description is tested by comparing the approximation with Brownian dynamics simulations in full configuration space. This non-equilibrium transport in such quasi-one-dimensional irregular structures implies for moderate-to-strong bias a characteristic violation of the Sutherland-Einstein fluctuation-dissipation relation.

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