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 lower temperature than the resistor. Researchers from the University of Twente, the University of Patras in Greece, and the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter have constructed a Feynman-Smoluchowski engine which, when not in thermal equilibrium, converts pseudo-Brownian motion into work by means of a granular gas, which is a conglomeration of solid particles vibrated with such vigour that the system assumes a gas-like state. The constructed engine consisted of four vanes which were allowed to rotate freely in a vibrofluidized granular gas. Because the ratchet's gear and pawl mechanism, as described above, permitted the axle to rotate only in