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Condensed Matter > Statistical Mechanics

Title: Universality of giant diffusion in tilted periodic potentials

Abstract: Giant diffusion, where the diffusion coefficient of a Brownian particle in a periodic potential with an external force is significantly enhanced by the external force, is a non-trivial non-equilibrium phenomenon. We propose a simple stochastic model of giant diffusion, which is based on a biased continuous-time random walk (CTRW). In this model, we introduce a flight time in the biased CTRW. We derive the diffusion coefficients of this model by the renewal theory and find that there is a maximum diffusion coefficient when the bias is changed. Giant diffusion is universally observed in the sense that there is a peak of the diffusion coefficient for any tilted periodic potentials and the degree of the diffusivity is greatly enhanced especially for low-temperature regimes. The biased CTRW models with flight times are applied to diffusion under three tilted periodic potentials. Furthermore, the temperature dependence of the maximum diffusion coefficient and the external force that attains the maximum are presented for diffusion under a tilted sawtooth potential.
Comments: 13 pages, 7 figures
Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
Cite as: arXiv:2404.12761 [cond-mat.stat-mech]
  (or arXiv:2404.12761v1 [cond-mat.stat-mech] for this version)

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From: Takuma Akimoto [view email]
[v1] Fri, 19 Apr 2024 10:08:23 GMT (373kb)

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