title: Interacting molecular motors: efficiency and work fluctuations.
abstract: We investigate the model of "reversible ratchet" with interacting particles, presented by us earlier [F. Slanina, EPL 84, 50009 (2008)]. We further clarify the effect of efficiency enhancement due to interaction and show that it is of energetic origin, rather than a consequence of reduced fluctuations. We also show complicated structures emerging in the interaction and density dependence of the current and response function. The fluctuation properties of the work and input energy indicate in detail the far-from-equilibrium nature of the dynamics.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Na Slovance 2, CZ-18221 Praha, Czech Republic. slanina@fzu.cz
authors.forename: Frantisek
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Slanina
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D004735:Energy Transfer; D008956:Models, Chemical; D015233:Models, Statistical; D020409:Molecular Motor Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D020409:Molecular Motor Proteins