Regensburg 2010 – wissenschaftliches Programm
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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik
DY 7: Stochastic processes, brownian motion, and transport
DY 7.4: Vortrag
Dienstag, 23. März 2010, 10:30–10:45, H46
Steering the potential barriers: energetic entropic — •P. Sekhar Burada1, Peter Hänggi2, and Gerhard Schmid2 — 1MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany — 2University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany
We propose a new mechanism to alter the nature of the
potential barrier when a biased Brownian particle under goes a constrained motion in narrow, periodic channels [1,2]. By rotating the external bias, the nature of the potential barrier changes from energetic to purely entropic which in turn effects the diffusion process inside the system. At an optimum angle of the bias, the average particle current exhibits a resonance-like peak. Moreover, the enhancement of the effective diffusion coefficient is efficiently controlled by the rotation angle. This mechanism enables the proper design of channel structures for transport of molecules and small particles. The approximative analytical predictions have been corroborated with precise Brownian dynamic simulations of the full dynamics.
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[2]. D. Reguera, G. Schmid, P.S. Burada, J.M. Rubí, P. Reimann, and P. Hänggi, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 130603 (2006).