Issue |
EPL
Volume 77, Number 6, March 2007
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Article Number | 60001 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | General | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/77/60001 | |
Published online | 28 February 2007 |
Single file diffusion enhancement in a fluctuating modulated quasi-1D channel
Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes-CNRS & Université Paris 7 - 140 rue de Lourmel, 75015 Paris, France
Corresponding author: michel.saintjean@paris7.jussieu.fr
Received:
23
October
2006
Accepted:
25
January
2007
We show that the diffusion of a single file of particles moving in a fluctuating modulated quasi-1D channel is enhanced with respect to the one in a bald pipe. This effect, induced by the fluctuations of the modulation, is favoured by the incommensurability between the channel potential modulation and the moving file periodicity. This phenomenon could be of importance in order to optimize the critical current in superconductors, in particular in the case where mobile vortices move in 1D channels designed by patterns of pinning sites.
PACS: 05.40.-a – Fluctuation phenomena, random processes, noise, and Brownian motion
© Europhysics Letters Association, 2007
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