Revisiting the Ratchet Principle: When Hidden Symmetries Prevent Steady Currents
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| author | Metzger, Jessica Ro, Sunghan Tailleur, Julien |
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| contents | The "ratchet principle", which states that non-equilibrium systems violating parity symmetry generically exhibit steady-state currents, is one of the few generic results outside thermal equilibrium. We study exceptions to this principle observed in active and passive systems with spatially varying fluctuations sources. For dilute systems, we show that a hidden time-reversal symmetry prevents the emergence of ratchet currents. At higher densities, pairwise forces break this symmetry but an emergent conservation law for the momentum field may nevertheless prevent steady currents. We show how the presence of this conservation law can be tested analytically and characterize the onset of ratchet currents in its absence. Our results show that the ratchet principle should be amended to preclude parity symmetry, time-reversal symmetry, and bulk momentum conservation. |
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| spellingShingle | Revisiting the Ratchet Principle: When Hidden Symmetries Prevent Steady Currents Metzger, Jessica Ro, Sunghan Tailleur, Julien Statistical Mechanics Soft Condensed Matter The "ratchet principle", which states that non-equilibrium systems violating parity symmetry generically exhibit steady-state currents, is one of the few generic results outside thermal equilibrium. We study exceptions to this principle observed in active and passive systems with spatially varying fluctuations sources. For dilute systems, we show that a hidden time-reversal symmetry prevents the emergence of ratchet currents. At higher densities, pairwise forces break this symmetry but an emergent conservation law for the momentum field may nevertheless prevent steady currents. We show how the presence of this conservation law can be tested analytically and characterize the onset of ratchet currents in its absence. Our results show that the ratchet principle should be amended to preclude parity symmetry, time-reversal symmetry, and bulk momentum conservation. |
| title | Revisiting the Ratchet Principle: When Hidden Symmetries Prevent Steady Currents |
| topic | Statistical Mechanics Soft Condensed Matter |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.07851 |