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We investigate the escape rate of an overdamped, self-propelled spherical Brownian particle on a surface from a metastable potential well. Within a modeling in terms of a 1D constant speed of the particle's active dynamics we consider the…

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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

We study the first hitting time statistics between a one-dimensional run-and-tumble particle and a target site that switches intermittently between visible and invisible phases. The two-state dynamics of the target is independent of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-05 Gabriel Mercado-Vásquez , Denis Boyer

We study the survival probability and the corresponding first passage time density of fractional Brownian motion confined to a two-dimensional open wedge domain with absorbing boundaries. By analytical arguments and numerical simulation we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 J. -H. Jeon , A. V. Chechkin , R. Metzler

The mean first passage time, one of the important characteristics for a stochastic process, is often calculated assuming the observation time is infinite. However, in practice, the observation time, T, is always finite and the mean first…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-22 Ji-Hyun Kim , Hunki Lee , Sanggeun Song , Hye Ran Koh , Jaeyoung Sung

In many situations, simply finding a target during a search is not enough. It is equally important to be able to return to that target repeatedly or to enable a larger community to locate and utilize it. While first passage time is commonly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-16 Vladimir Yu. Rudyak , Shahar Shinehorn , Yael Roichman

We study the first-passage time to the origin of a mortal Brownian particle, with mortality rate $ \mu $, diffusing in one dimension. The particle starts its motion from $ x>0 $ and it is subject to stochastic resetting with constant rate $…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-01 Mattia Radice

In the barrier escape problem, a random searcher starting at the energy minima tries to escape the barrier under the effect of thermal fluctuations. If the random searcher is subject to successive restarts at the bottom of the well, then…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-01 R. K. Singh

We present a novel computational method of first-passage times between a starting site and a target site of regular bounded lattices. We derive accurate expressions for all the moments of this first-passage time, validated by numerical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 S Condamin , O. Benichou , M. Moreau

We study the mean first passage time of a one-dimensional active fluctuating membrane that is stochastically returned to the same flat initial condition at a finite rate. We start with a Fokker Planck equation to describe the evolution of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-03 Tapas Singha

Encounter-based models of diffusion provide a probabilistic framework for analyzing the effects of a partially absorbing reactive surface, in which the probability of absorption depends upon the amount of surface-particle contact time.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-05 Paul C Bressloff

We investigate the first-passage properties and extreme-value statistics of an overdamped Brownian particle confined by an external linear potential $V(x)=\mu |x-x_0|$, where $\mu>0$ is the strength of the potential and $x_0>0$ is the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-17 Feng Huang , Hanshuang Chen

We study the one-dimensional motion of a Brownian particle inside a confinement described by two reactive boundaries which can partially reflect or absorb the particle. Understanding the effects of such boundaries is important in physics,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-30 Arnab Pal , Isaac Pérez Castillo , Anupam Kundu

The diffusion of a fractional Brownian particle passing over the saddle point is studied in the field of the metastable potential. The barrier escaping probability is found to be greatly related to the fractional exponent $\alpha$.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-02-24 Chun-Yang Wang , Cui-Feng Sun , Hong Zhang , Xue-Mei Zong , Ming Yi

In order to approximate the exit time of a one-dimensional diffusion process, we propose an algorithm based on a random walk. Such an algorithm so-called Walk on Moving Spheres was already introduced in the Brownian context. The aim is…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Samuel Herrmann , Nicolas Massin

How long a stochastic process survives before leaving a domain depends not only on its intrinsic dynamics but also on how it is observed. Classical first-passage theory assumes continuous monitoring with absorbing boundaries…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Lars Fritz

We study the first passage statistics to adsorbing boundaries of a Brownian motion in bounded two-dimensional domains of different shapes and configurations of the adsorbing and reflecting boundaries. From extensive numerical analysis we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-30 Thiago G. Mattos , Carlos Mejía-Monasterio , Ralf Metzler , Gleb S. Oshanin

This paper deals with the mean first escape time of Brownian motion on asymptotically hyperbolic and gas giant surfaces. We show that for a boundary defining function $\rho$, the mean first escape time $u_\epsilon(x)$ from the truncated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Jesse Gell-Redman , Emanuel József Godfried , Justin Tzou , Leo Tzou

We present an analytical method of calculating the mean first-passage times (MFPTs) for the magnetic moment of a uniaxial nanoparticle which is driven by a rapidly rotating, circularly polarized magnetic field and interacts with a heat…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-14 S. I. Denisov , K. Sakmann , P. Talkner , P. Hänggi

We analyze velocity-jump process models of persistent search for a single target on a bounded domain. The searcher proceeds along ballistic trajectories and is absorbed upon collision with the target boundary. When reaching the domain…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-22 Daniel B. Poll , Zachary P. Kilpatrick