Fractional Brownian motion stationary and self-similar increments. It has stationary increments: For "H" > ½ the process exhibits long-range dependence, Sample-paths are almost nowhere differentiable. However, almost-all trajectories are locally Hölder continuous of any order strictly less than "H": for each such trajectory, for every "T" > 0 and for every "ε" > 0 there exists a (random) constant "c" such that for 0 < "s","t" < "T". With probability 1, the graph of "B"("t") has both Hausdorff dimension and box dimension of 2−"H". As for regular Brownian motion, one can define stochastic integrals with respect to fractional Brownian motion, usually called "fractional
Brownian ratchet Brownian ratchet In the philosophy of thermal and statistical physics, the Brownian ratchet or Feynman-Smoluchowski ratchet is a thought experiment about an apparent perpetual motion machine first analysed in 1912 by Polish physicist Marian Smoluchowski and popularised by American Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman in a physics lecture at the California Institute of Technology on May 11, 1962, during his Messenger Lectures series The Character of Physical Law in Cornell University in 1964 and in his text "The Feynman Lectures on Physics" as an illustration of the laws of thermodynamics. The simple machine, consisting of a tiny paddle wheel and