Brownian ratchet a heat bath in that they undergo random Brownian motion with a mean kinetic energy that is determined by the temperature. The device is imagined as being small enough that the impulse from a single molecular collision can turn the paddle. Although such collisions would tend to turn the rod in either direction with equal probability, the pawl allows the ratchet to rotate in one direction only. The net effect of many such random collisions would seem to be that the ratchet rotates continuously in that direction. The ratchet's motion then can be used to do work on other systems,
Fractional Brownian motion stochastic integrals". In general though, unlike integrals with respect to regular Brownian motion, fractional stochastic integrals are not semimartingales. Just as Brownian motion can be viewed as white noise filtered by formula_8 (i.e. integrated), fractional Brownian motion is white noise filtered by formula_9 (corresponding to fractional integration). Practical computer realisations of an "fBm" can be generated, although they are only a finite approximation. The sample paths chosen can be thought of as showing discrete sampled points on an "fBm" process. Three realizations are shown below, each with 1000 points of an "fBm" with Hurst parameter 0.75. Realizations of three different