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We discuss physical and mathematical aspects of the over-damped motion of a Brownian particle in fluctuating potentials. It is shown that such a system can be described quantitatively by fluctuating rates if the potential fluctuations are…
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We introduce the new, exactly solvable model of the two-dimensional Dirac fermion in presence of an asymmetric, P\"oschl-Teller-like vector potential. Utilizing the translation invariance of the system, the effective one-dimensional…