Entropy driven unidirectional motion of Brownian particle inside a three-dimensional tube
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We propose a three-dimensional ~3-D! tube model consisting of a sequence of connected two-gate blobs for an ion channel and a microtube of a molecular motor. Due to the competition effect between two gates ~or sinks! on the same blob surface, the escape pathway for the Brownian particle inside a blob is selected by these two gates owing to gate modulation. Furthermore, there exists a nonzero net flow inside the 3-D tube and this unidirectional flow is strongly dependent on the selectivity of the escape pathway for the Brownian particle inside each individual blob. In this context, the Brownian particle moves unidirectionally without any applied external fluctuation forces and the entire process is entropy driven. © 2001 American Institute of Physics. @DOI: 10.1063/1.1342034#
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