Single file diffusion enhancement in a fluctuating modulated quasi-1D channel

We show that the diffusion of a single file of particles moving in a fluctuating modulated quasi-1D channel is enhanced with respect to the one in a bald pipe. This effect, induced by the fluctuations of the modulation, is favoured by the incommensurability between the channel potential modulation and the moving file periodicity. This phenomenon could be of importance in order to optimize the critical current in superconductors, in particular in the case where mobile vortices move in 1D channels designed by patterns of pinning sites.