Brownian motor ramifications of the Fluctuation Theorems, Pumping Quantization Theorems, and Pumping-Restriction Theorems. Brownian motor Brownian motors are nano-scale or molecular devices by which thermally activated processes (chemical reactions) are controlled and used to generate directed motion in space and to do mechanical or electrical work. These tiny engines operate in an environment where viscosity dominates inertia, and where thermal noise makes moving in a specific direction as difficult as walking in a hurricane: the forces impelling these motors in the desired direction are minuscule in comparison with the random forces exerted by the environment. Because this type of motor is so
Reflected Brownian motion all "t" ≥ 0, (with Φ the cumulative distribution function of the normal distribution) which yields (for "μ" < 0) when taking t → ∞ an exponential distribution For fixed "t", the distribution of "Z(t)" coincides with the distribution of the running maximum "M(t)" of the Brownian motion, But be aware that the distributions of the processes as a whole are very different. In particular, "M(t)" is increasing in "t", which is not the case for "Z(t)". The heat kernel for reflected Brownian motion at formula_9: formula_10 For the plane above formula_11 The stationary distribution of a reflected Brownian motion