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Main Authors: Morikawa, Masahiro, Nakamichi, Akika
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11369
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author Morikawa, Masahiro
Nakamichi, Akika
author_facet Morikawa, Masahiro
Nakamichi, Akika
contents We recently proposed that the general origin of 1/f fluctuation, or pink noise, is the amplitude modulation (or beat) of many waves with accumulating frequencies. In this paper, we verify this proposal in the electric current system. We use the classical Langevin equation to describe the electron wave packets flowing in the (semi-)conductor, affected by the back reaction of soft photon emission. If this were amplitude modulation, a demodulation process is needed to extract the fluctuation features. We first square the wave packet, which corresponds to the electric current, and obtain the 1/f fluctuation in this current data. We further speculate that this wave packet, after demodulation by thresholding, triggers the time sequence of the nerve firing. In our model, this also shows 1/f fluctuations, which is quite robust.
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spellingShingle Pink noise in Electric Current from Amplitude Modulations
Morikawa, Masahiro
Nakamichi, Akika
Statistical Mechanics
We recently proposed that the general origin of 1/f fluctuation, or pink noise, is the amplitude modulation (or beat) of many waves with accumulating frequencies. In this paper, we verify this proposal in the electric current system. We use the classical Langevin equation to describe the electron wave packets flowing in the (semi-)conductor, affected by the back reaction of soft photon emission. If this were amplitude modulation, a demodulation process is needed to extract the fluctuation features. We first square the wave packet, which corresponds to the electric current, and obtain the 1/f fluctuation in this current data. We further speculate that this wave packet, after demodulation by thresholding, triggers the time sequence of the nerve firing. In our model, this also shows 1/f fluctuations, which is quite robust.
title Pink noise in Electric Current from Amplitude Modulations
topic Statistical Mechanics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11369