Issue |
EPL
Volume 84, Number 1, October 2008
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Article Number | 10014 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | General | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/84/10014 | |
Published online | 01 October 2008 |
Efficiency of Brownian motors in terms of entropy production rate
1
Shaoxing College of Arts and Sciences - Zhejiang Province 312000, PRC
2
Department of Computer Science, Warwick University - Coventry CV4 7AL, UK, EU
3
Centre for Computational System Biology, Fudan University - Shanghai 210000, PRC
Corresponding author: xuejuanzhang@gmail.com.
Received:
23
February
2008
Accepted:
29
August
2008
This paper presents a novel approach to the investigation of the efficiency of Brownian motors in the framework of nonequilibrium theory. We derive an explicit expression of the entropy production rate (EPR) for a chemically driven Brownian motor and use this to develop an expression for motor efficiency in terms of the EPR. Our result is consistent with earlier derivations but is more general and physically transparent and thus applicable to a wider range of biological motors.
PACS: 05.40.-a – Fluctuation phenomena, random processes, noise, and Brownian motion / 87.10.-e – Biological and medical physics: General theory and mathematical aspects
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