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Quenched Disorder Effects on Deterministic Inertia Ratchets

C. M. Arizmendi, Fereydoon Family, A. L. Salas-Brito

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/0102286

Abstract

The effect of quenched disorder on the underdamped motion of a periodically driven particle on a ratchet potential is studied. As a consequence of disorder, current reversal and chaotic diffusion may take place on regular trajectories. On the other hand, on some chaotic trajectories disorder induces regular motion. A localization effect similar to Golosov Phenomenon sets in whenever a disorder threshold that depends on the mass of the particle is reached. Possible applications of the localization phenomenon are discussed.

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