Minimal Brownian Ratchet: An exactly solvable model

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 22, 2003, Pages

  Lee, Youngki ^a,b   Allison, Andrew ^c   Abbott, Derek ^c   Stanley, H Eugene ^b  

^a YANBIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY; MINIMAL BROWNIAN RATCHET; TRANSITION PROBABILITY;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EID: 0346058196     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.220601     Document Type: Article

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