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Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys
; 76(1 Pt 1): 011125, 2007 Jul.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-17677428
RESUMO
We consider a Brownian particle which is driven by a harmonically oscillating force, the motion of which is restricted by two reflecting boundaries. We solve the Fokker-Planck equation using the finite-element method and focus on the dynamics of the mean position of the particle in the time-asymptotic regime. As a function of the strength of the external force, the response of the system, i.e., the amplitude of the mean position and the dynamical shift, in the stationary limit shows a resonancelike behavior as a function of the diffusion coefficient for certain parameter regimes. We explain these numerical results heuristically and give some qualitative estimates.