Spatiotemporally asymmetric fractionalLangevin-like ratchet

Abstract

In this paper, a spatiotemporally asymmetric fractional Langevin-like ratchet is constructed for the operation of a one-dimensional linear molecular motor subjected to both temporally asymmetric unbiased Langevin-like noise generated by the Logistic mapping and spatially asymmetric periodic potential. In this ratchet, the Langevin-like noise is used to describe fluctuations of intracellular surrounding, and the fractional order is responsible for the effect of the non-ideal intracellular surrounding. Then, by deducing the corresponding discrete mapping, dependance of ratchet effect on parameters are numerically investigated. Numerical results show that both the temporal asymmetry of noise and the spatial asymmetry of potential are crucial to the directed-transport of the ratchet, and competitive spatially asymmetric potential can even reverse the unidirected transport generated by the temporally asymmetric noise at suitable parameters.