Abstract
We consider a generalized one-dimensional chain in a periodic potential (the Frenkel–Kontorova model), with dissipative, pulsating (or ratchet) dynamics as a model of transport when the average force on the system is zero. We find lower bounds on the transport speed under mild assumptions on the asymmetry and steepness of the site potential. Physically relevant applications include explicit estimates of the pulse frequencies and mean spacings for which the transport is non-zero, and more specifically the pulse frequencies which maximize work. The bounds explicitly depend on the pulse period and subtle number-theoretical properties of the mean spacing. The main tool is the study of time evolution of spatially invariant measures in the space of measures equipped with the $$L^1$$ -Wasserstein metric.
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