2011/04/26 by Jaegon Um, Hyunsuk Hong, Fabio Marchesoni +1 · 6 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Neuroscience · Physics and Astronomy · #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Rectification #Retinal Development and Disorders #Visual perception and processing mechanisms #cond-mat.dis-nn #cond-mat.stat-mech
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.108.060601
published in Physical Review Letters 108(6), 060601 (American Physical Society)
arxiv created 2011/04/26 · openalex publication_date 2012/02/07 · arxiv updated 2015/05/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We demonstrate that a large ensemble of noiseless globally coupled-pinned oscillators is capable of rectifying spatial disorder with spontaneous current activated through a dynamical phase transition mechanism, either of first or second order, depending on the profile of the pinning potential. In the presence of an external weak drive, the same collective mechanism can result in an absolute negative mobility, which, though not immediately related to symmetry breaking, is most prominent at the phase transition. Our results apply to a tug-of-war by competing molecular motors for bidirectional cargo transport.