title: Rocking feedback-controlled ratchets.
abstract: We investigate the different regimes that emerge when a periodic driving force, the rocking force, acts on a collective feedback flashing ratchet. The interplay of the rocking and the feedback control gives a rich dynamics with different regimes presenting several unexpected features. In particular, we show that for both the one-particle ratchet and the collective version of the ratchet an appropriate rocking increases the flux. This mechanism gives the maximum flux that has been achieved in a ratchet device without an a priori bias.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avenida Complutense s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain. feito@fis.ucm.es
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Feito
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Baltanás
authors.forename: F J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Cao