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Unraveling the hidden complexity of quasideterministic ratchets: random walks, graphs, and circle maps
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Brownian ratchets are shown to feature a nontrivial vanishing-noise limit where the dynamics is reduced to a stochastic alternation between two deterministic circle maps (quasideterministic ratchets). Motivated by cooperative dynamics of molecular motors, here we solve exactly the problem of two interacting quasideterministic ratchets. We show that the dynamics can be described as a random walk on a graph that is specific to each set of parameters. We compute point by point the exact velocity-force V ( f ) function as a summation over all paths in the specific graph for each f , revealing a complex structure that features self-similarity and nontrivial continuity properties. From a general perspective, we unveil that the alternation of two simple piecewise linear circle maps unfolds a very rich variety of dynamical complexity, in particular the phenomenon of piecewise chaos, where chaos emerges from the combination of nonchaotic maps. We show convergence of the finite-noise case to our exact solution.
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BLANCH MERCADER, Carles, GÓMEZ ORLANDI, Javier and CASADEMUNT I VIADER, Jaume. Unraveling the hidden complexity of quasideterministic ratchets: random walks, graphs, and circle maps. Physical Review E. 2020. Vol. 101, num. 1, pags. 012203. ISSN 1539-3755. [consulted: 14 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/159377