Rocking subdiffusive ratchets: origin, optimization and efficiency

DOI10.1051/MMNP/20138210MaRDI QIDQ5300711zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Igor Goychuk, Vasyl O. Kharchenko

Publication date 28 June 2013

Published in Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.6737

zbMATH Keywords

anomalous Brownian motiongeneralized Langevin equationmemory effectsratchet transportstochastic thermodynamicsviscoelasticity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic ordinary differential equations (aspects of stochastic analysis) (60H10) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

Abstract: We study origin, parameter optimization, and thermodynamic efficiency of isothermal rocking ratchets based on fractional subdiffusion within a generalized non-Markovian Langevin equation approach. A corresponding multi-dimensional Markovian embedding dynamics is realized using a set of auxiliary Brownian particles elastically coupled to the central Brownian particle (see video on the journal web site). We show that anomalous subdiffusive transport emerges due to an interplay of nonlinear response and viscoelastic effects for fractional Brownian motion in periodic potentials with broken space-inversion symmetry and driven by a time-periodic field. The anomalous transport becomes optimal for a subthreshold driving when the driving period matches a characteristic time scale of interwell transitions. It can also be optimized by varying temperature, amplitude of periodic potential and driving strength. The useful work done against a load shows a parabolic dependence on the load strength. It grows sublinearly with time and the corresponding thermodynamic efficiency decays algebraically in time because the energy supplied by the driving field scales with time linearly. However, it compares well with the efficiency of normal diffusion rocking ratchets on an appreciably long time scale.

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