Role of interaction on noise-induced transport of two coupled particles in Brownian ratchet devices

Fluctuation and Noise Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Retkute, Renata ^a   Gleeson, James P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Brownian motor; Coupled ratchet; DNA separation; Elastic coupling; Lennard Jones potential

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749242946     PISSN: 02194775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219477506003409     Document Type: Article

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