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The first passage is a generic concept for quantifying when a random quantity such as the position of a diffusing molecule or the value of a stock crosses a preset threshold (target) for the first time. The last decade saw an enlightening…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-26 Aljaz Godec , Ralf Metzler

Piecewise Diffusion Markov Processes (PDifMPs) are valuable for modelling systems where continuous dynamics are interrupted by sudden shifts and/or changes in drift and diffusion. The first-passage time (FPT) in such models plays a central…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Sascha Desmettre , Devika Khurana , Amira Meddah

We study the distribution of first passage time (FPT) in Levy type of anomalous diffusion. Using recently formulated fractional Fokker-Planck equation we obtain three results. (1) We derive an explicit expression for the FPT distribution in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Govindan Rangarajan , Mingzhou Ding

In this paper the focus is set on a modified Chua's circuit model equation with saw-tooth function in place of piece-wise linear function of Chua's circuit displaying multi-scroll chaotic attractors. We study the characteristic properties…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-28 G. Sakthivel , S. Rajasekar , K. Thamilmaran , Syamal Kumar Dana

In this paper, we develop an encounter-based model of partial surface adsorption for fractional diffusion in a bounded domain. We take the probability of adsorption to depend on the amount of particle-surface contact time, as specified by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-21 Paul C Bressloff

In biochemical reaction networks, the first passage time (FPT) of a reaction quantifies the time it takes for the reaction to first occur, from the initial state. While the mean FPT historically served as a summary metric, a far more…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-07 Changqian Rao , David Waxman , Wei Lin , Zhuoyi Song

We consider in this paper subdiffusion in a system with a thin membrane. The subdiffusion parameters are the same in both parts of the system separated by the membrane. Using the random walk model with discrete time and space variables the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-23 Tadeusz Kosztolowicz

In this paper, we consider the random walk process on a kind of fractal (or transfractal) scale free networks, which also called as $(u,v)$ flowers, and we focus on the global first passage time (GFPT) and first return time (FRT). Here, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-27 Junhao Peng

An intermittent nonlinear map generating subdiffusion is investigated. Computer simulations show that the generalized diffusion coefficient of this map has a fractal, discontinuous dependence on control parameters. An amended continuous…

We study the statistics of the first-passage time of a single run and tumble particle (RTP) in one spatial dimension, with or without resetting, to a fixed target located at $L>0$. First, we compute the first-passage time distribution of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-20 Gennaro Tucci , Andrea Gambassi , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

How long does it take a random walker to reach a given target point? This quantity, known as a first passage time (FPT), has led to a growing number of theoretical investigations over the last decade1. The importance of FPTs originates from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Condamin , O. Benichou , V. Tejedor , R. Voituriez , J. Klafter

This work explores different particle-based approaches to the simulation of one-dimensional fractional subdiffusion equations in unbounded domains. We rely on smooth particle approximations, and consider four methods for estimating the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-14 S. Allouch , M. Lucchesi , O. P. Le Maître , K. A. Mustapha , O. M. Knio

A nonlinear generalization of the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem (FDT) for the n-point Green functions and the amputated 1PI vertex functions at finite temperature is derived in the framework of the Closed Time Path formalism. We verify…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-09 Enke Wang , Ulrich Heinz

The first passage time (FPT) for random walks is a key indicator of how fast information diffuses in a given system. Despite the role of FPT as a fundamental feature in transport phenomena, its behavior, particularly in heterogeneous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Hwang , D. -S. Lee , B. Kahng

We determine the survival probability and first-passage time (FPT) to capture for a harmonically trapped particle, diffusing outside an absorbing spherical boundary by directly solving the differential equation for the survival probability.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Tianyu Yuan , Ivan Surovtsev , Megan C. King , Simon G. J. Mochrie

The first-passage time (FPT), defined as the time a random walker takes to reach a target point in a confining domain, is a key quantity in the theory of stochastic processes. Its importance comes from its crucial role to quantify the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-01 T. Guérin , N. Levernier , O. Bénichou , R. Voituriez

The first passage time (FPT) problem is studied for superstatistical models assuming that the mesoscopic system dynamics is described by a Fokker-Planck equation. We show that all moments of the random intensive parameter associated to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-30 Adrián A. Budini , Manuel O. Cáceres

The first-passage time (FPT), i.e., the moment when a stochastic process reaches a given threshold value for the first time, is a fundamental mathematical concept with immediate applications. In particular, it quantifies the statistics of…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2018-12-05 Denis S. Grebenkov , Ralf Metzler , Gleb Oshanin

We study the first passage time (FPT) problem in Levy type of anomalous diffusion. Using the recently formulated fractional Fokker-Planck equation, we obtain an analytic expression for the FPT distribution which, in the large passage time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Govindan Rangarajan , Mingzhou Ding

In this paper we study subdiffusion in a system with a thin membrane. At the beginning, the random walk of a particle is considered in a system with a discrete time and space variable and then the probability describing the evolution of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-21 Tadeusz Kosztołowicz