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Relativistic Brownian motion on a graphene chip

Statistical Mechanics 2015-05-27 v3 Quantum Physics

Abstract

Relativistic Brownian motion can be inexpensively demonstrated on a graphene chip. The interplay of stochastic and relativistic dynamics, governing the transport of charge carrier in graphene, induces noise-controlled effects such as (i) a stochastic effective mass, detectable as a suppression of the particle mobility with increasing the temperature; (ii) a transverse ratchet effect, measurable as a net current orthogonal to an ac drive on an asymmetric substrate, and (iii) a chaotic stochastic resonance. Such properties can be of practical applications in the emerging graphene technology.

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@article{arxiv.1103.0945,
  title  = {Relativistic Brownian motion on a graphene chip},
  author = {Andrey Pototsky and Fabio Marchesoni and Feodor V. Kusmartsev and Peter Hänggi and Sergey E. Savel'ev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.0945},
  year   = {2015}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures

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