Interaction-controlled Brownian motion in a tilted periodic potential.

The drift and diffusion of a few interacting, overdamped Brownian particles in a tilted periodic potential are studied analytically and numerically. Both quantities exhibit a complex multipeaked structure as a function of the equilibrium interparticle separation. Upon variation of the interaction strength, both drift and diffusion may exhibit a nonmonotonic, resonancelike behavior.

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