Coulomb friction driving Brownian motors (Articolo in rivista)

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  • Coulomb friction driving Brownian motors (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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  • 2014-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • 10.1088/0253-6102/62/4/08 (literal)
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  • Alessandro Manacorda (1); Andrea Puglisi (2,3); Alessandro Sarracino (2,3,4) (2014)
    Coulomb friction driving Brownian motors
    in Communications in Theoretical Physics
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  • Alessandro Manacorda (1); Andrea Puglisi (2,3); Alessandro Sarracino (2,3,4) (literal)
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  • 505 (literal)
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  • 62 (literal)
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  • (1) Dipartimento di Fisica, Università Sapienza, p.le A. Moro 2Rome, Italy (2) Istituto Dei Sistemi Complessi, CNR and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università Sapienza, p.le A. Moro 2Rome, Italy (3) Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics China, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, China (4) Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de la Matière Condensée, CNRS UMR 7600, Université Paris 6, case courrier 121, 4 Place JussieuParis Cedex, France (literal)
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  • Coulomb friction driving Brownian motors (literal)
Abstract
  • We review a family of models recently introduced to describe Brownian motors under the influence of Coulomb friction, or more general non-linear friction laws. It is known that, if the heat bath is modeled as the usual Langevin equation (linear viscosity plus white noise), additional non-linear friction forces are not sufficient to break detailed balance, i.e. cannot produce a motor effect. We discuss two possibile mechanisms to elude this problem. A first possibility, exploited in several models inspired to recent experiments, is to replace the heat bath's white noise by a \"collisional noise\", that is the effect of random collisions with an external equilibrium gas of particles. A second possibility is enlarging the phase space, e.g. by adding an external potential which couples velocity to position, as in a Klein - Kramers equation. In both cases, non-linear friction becomes sufficient to achieve a non-equilibrium steady state and, in the presence of an even small spatial asymmetry, a motor effect is produced. (literal)
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