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Noise is known to disrupt a preferred act or motion. Yet, noise and broken symmetry in asymmetric potential, together, can make a directed motion possible, in fact essential in some cases. In Biology, in order to understand the motions of molecular motors in cells ratchets are imagined as useful models. Besides, there are optical ratchets and quant...