Analytical solution to transport in Brownian ratchets via the Gambler's ruin model

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Cheng, X Z ^a   Jalil, M B A ^a   Lee, Hwee Kuan ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

LANGEVIN SIMULATIONS; MARKOV DICHOTOMOUS NOISE; TRANSITION PROBABILITIES;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT;

EID: 34548080647     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.070601     Document Type: Article

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