Statistically locked-in transport through periodic potential landscapes

Ajay Gopinathan; David G. Grier

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.130602

Statistically locked-in transport through periodic potential landscapes

Ajay Gopinathan, David G. Grier

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An idealized model for periodically modulated transport in the presence of randomness that captures both the structure and statistics of such statistically locked-in-states was discussed. It was found that the potential energy landscape's structure and extent established the discrete spectrum of travel directions selected by biased random walkers. It was suggested that kinetically locked-in state selected a given orientation depended sensitively on particle size. Analysis shows that locked-in transport persists and modified by random scattering.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	130602
Pages (from-to)	130602-1-130602-4
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	92
Issue number	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.130602
State	Published - Apr 2 2004

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