Unification and new extensions of the no-pumping theorems of stochastic pumps

From molecular machines to quantum dots, a wide range of mesoscopic systems can be modeled by periodically driven Markov processes, or stochastic pumps. Currents in the stochastic pumps are delimited by an exact no-go condition called the no-pumping theorem (NPT). The letter presents a unified treatment of all the adaptations of NPT known so far, and further extends it to systems with many species of interacting particles.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures, Accepted at EPL (Europhysics Letters

IP∗^{*}-sets in function field and mixing properties

The ring of polynomial over a finite field $F_q[x]$ has received much attention, both from a combinatorial viewpoint as in regards to its action on measurable dynamical systems. In the case of $(\mathbb{Z},+)$ we know that the ideal generated by any nonzero element is an IP$^*$-set. In the present article we first establish that the analogous result is true for $F_q[x]$. We further use this result to establish some mixing properties of the action of $(F_q[x],+)$. We shall also discuss on Khintchine's recurrence for the action of $(F_q[x]\setminus\{0\},\cdot)$