1995/07/17 by Imre Derenyi, Imre Derényi, Tamás Vicsek +1 · 187 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Physics and Astronomy · #Brownian dynamics #Brownian motion #Brownian motor #Classical mechanics #Diffusion and Search Dynamics #Gene Regulatory Network Analysis #Particle (ecology) #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Statistical physics #Work (physics) #cond-mat.stat-mech #stochastic dynamics and bifurcation
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.75.374
published in Physical Review Letters 75(3), 374-377 (American Physical Society) · 4 pages, 5 figures
openalex publication_date 1995/07/17 · arxiv created 1998/09/21 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We consider the collective motion of finite-sized, overdamped Brownian particles (e.g., motor proteins) in a periodic potential. Simulations of our model have revealed a number of novel cooperative transport phenomena, including (i) the reversal of direction of the net current as the particle density is increased and (ii) a very strong and complex dependence of the average velocity on both the size and the average distance of the particles.