Collective transport of particles in a "flashing" periodic potential
- 1 July 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 54 (1) , R5-R8
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.54.r5
Abstract
We consider the collective motion of finite size Brownian particles induced by a one-dimensional, spatially asymmetric, periodic potential which is turned "on" and "off" dichotomously. The particles interact through simple hard-core repulsion. We show analytically that this simple system exhibits an interesting collective behavior: (i) the direction of motion can change many times as the density of particles is increased; (ii) close to the maximal density, the average velocity depends on the size of the particles in a very complex way, both in sign and magnitude.Keywords
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