Email the author Pulsating brownian motor with smooth modeling potentials in the framework of small fluctuation approximation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15407/hftp15.02.159
Abstract
Brownian motors belong to the class of nanoscale devices that use the thermal noise of the environment as one of the necessary components in the mechanism of their operation. Today, there are a lot of practical implementations of such nanomachines, both inorganic, fairly simple mechanisms produced artificially, and more complex ones created from separate biological components available at the cellular level. One of the options for implementing the mechanism of straightening the chaotic thermal noise of the environment into unidirectional motion is the presence of a motor particle in the field of action of an asymmetric periodic stationary potential, which undergoes certain small disturbances (fluctuations) periodically over time. To describe such asymmetric one-dimensional structures (for example, dipole chains or fibers of the cytoskeleton) in the theory of Brownian motors, two model potentials are most often used: piecewise linear sawtooth and double sinusoidal. In this work, within the framework of the approximation of small fluctuations, a model of a pulsating Brownian motor with a stationary double sinusoidal potential and a disturbing small harmonic signal is considered. A new method of parametrization of such a problem is proposed, which allows to separate the contributions from various factors affecting the operation of the ratchet, and the numerical procedure for calculating the average speed of the directional movement of nanoparticles for the selected type of model potentials is specified. A number of numerical dependences of the average speed on the main parameters of the system were obtained. Peculiarities of the behavior of the motor as dependent on the parameter responsible for asymmetry and the number of potential wells on the spatial period of the stationary potential have been investigated. It is shown that the direction of the generated flux of nanoparticles depends not only on the phase shift between the stationary and fluctuating components of the potential, but also on the temperature of the system and the frequency of fluctuations, i.e., a possibility of temperature-frequency control of the direction of movement in the considered model has been found. Diagrams have been constructed that allow you to choose the ratio between the parameters of the nanomotor to create a flux of particles in the desired direction.
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