Optimal operation of feedback flashing ratchets
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Optimal operation of feedback flashing ratchets
Feedback flashing ratchets are thermal rectifiers that use information on the state of the system to operate switching on and off a periodic potential. We discuss different strategies for this operation with the aim of maximizing the net flux of particles in the collective version of a flashing ratchet consisting on N overdamped Brownian particles. We show the optimal protocols for the one-part...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1742-5468
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2009/01/p01031