Noise-induced transport at zero temperature

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, , Citation Heiner Kohler and Andreas Mielke 1998 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 31 1929 DOI 10.1088/0305-4470/31/8/006

0305-4470/31/8/1929

Abstract

We consider a particle in the over-damped regime at zero temperature under the influence of a saw-tooth potential and of a noisy force, which is correlated in time. A current occurs, even if the mean of the noisy force vanishes. We calculate the stationary probability distribution and the stationary current. We discuss how these items depend on the characteristic parameters of the underlying stochastic process. A formal expansion of the current around the white-noise limit not always gives the correct asymptotic behaviour. We improve the expansion for some simple but representative cases.

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10.1088/0305-4470/31/8/006