Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 374–377 (1995)Cooperative Transport of Brownian ParticlesReceived 17 March 1995; published in the issue dated 17 July 1995 We consider the collective motion of finite-sized, overdamped Brownian particles (e.g., motor proteins) in a periodic potential. Simulations of our model have revealed a number of novel cooperative transport phenomena, including (i) the reversal of direction of the net current as the particle density is increased and (ii) a very strong and complex dependence of the average velocity on both the size and the average distance of the particles. © 1995 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.374
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.374
PACS:
05.60.+w, 05.40.+j, 87.10.+e
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