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SUBMITTER: Ethier SN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5792945 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Royal Society open science 20180124 1
A Brownian ratchet is a one-dimensional diffusion process that drifts towards a minimum of a periodic asymmetric sawtooth potential. A flashing Brownian ratchet is a process that alternates between two regimes, a one-dimensional Brownian motion and a Brownian ratchet, producing directed motion. These processes have been of interest to physicists and biologists for nearly 25 years. The flashing Brownian ratchet is the process that motivated Parrondo's paradox, in which two fair games of chance, w ...[more]