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1Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117542.
Abstract:
We show that the Perron-Frobenius equation of microscopic chaos based on double symmetric maps leads to an inhomogeneous Smoluchowski equation with a source term. Our perturbative analysis reveals that the source term gives rise to a directed current for a strongly damped particle in a spatially periodic potential. In addition, our result proves that in the zeroth-order limit, the position distribution of the particle obeys the Smoluchowski equation even though the fluctuating force is deterministic.
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