title: Transport driven by biharmonic forces: impact of correlated thermal noise.
abstract: We study an inertial brownian particle moving in a symmetric periodic substrate, driven by a zero-mean biharmonic force and correlated thermal noise. The brownian motion is described in terms of a generalized Langevin equation with an exponentially correlated gaussian noise term, obeying the fluctuation-dissipation theorem. We analyze impact of nonzero correlation time of thermal noise on transport properties of the brownian particle. We identify regimes where the increase of the correlation time intensifies long-time transport of the brownian particle. The opposite effect is also found: longer correlation time reduces the stationary velocity of the particle. The correlation time induced multiple current reversal is detected. We reveal that thermal noise of nonzero correlation time can radically enhance long-time velocity of the brownian particle in regimes where in the white noise limit the velocity is extremely small. All transport properties can be tested in the setup consisting of a resistively and capacitively shunted Josephson junction device.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, 40-007 Katowice, Poland.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Machura
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Łuczka