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We introduce and investigate the escape problem for random walkers that may eventually die, decay, bleach, or lose activity during their diffusion towards an escape or reactive region on the boundary of a confining domain. In the case of a…

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We consider the motion of an active Brownian particle with speed fluctuations in d-dimensions in the presence of both translational and orientational diffusion. We use an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process for active speed generation. Using a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-02 Amir Shee , Debasish Chaudhuri

Systems where resource availability approaches a critical threshold are common to many engineering and scientific applications and often necessitate the estimation of first passage time statistics of a Brownian motion (Bm) driven by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-04-05 Annalisa Molini , Peter Talkner , Gabriel G. Katul , Amilcare Porporato

We investigate the transience/recurrence of a non-Markovian, one-dimensional diffusion process which consists of a Brownian motion with a non-anticipating drift that has two phases---a transient to $+\infty$ mode which is activated when the…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-10 Ross G. Pinsky

We consider the limit behavior of a one-dimensional random walk with unit jumps whose transition probabilities are modified every time the walk hits zero. The invariance principle is proved in the scheme of series where the size of…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Andrey Pilipenko , Vladislav Khomenko

Brownian motion is a foundational physical process characterized by a mean squared displacement that scales linearly in time in thermal equilibrium, known as diffusion. At short times, the mean squared displacement becomes ballistic,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-10 Jason Boynewicz , Michael C. Thumann , Mark G. Raizen

In this note, we prove a version of the Phragmen-Lindelof principle using probabilistic techniques. In particular, we will show that if the p-th moment of the exit time of Brownian motion from a planar domain is finite, then an analytic…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-02-24 Greg Markowsky

We establish an integral test describing the exact cut-off between recurrence and transience for normally reflected Brownian motion in certain unbounded domains in a class of warped product manifolds. Besides extending a previous result by…

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Sticky Brownian motion on the real line can be obtained as a weak solution of a system of stochastic differential equations. We find the conditional distribution of the process given the driving Brownian motion, both at an independent…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Bugra Can , Mine Caglar

We survey recent results on first-passage processes in unbounded cones and their applications to ordering of particles undergoing Brownian motion in one dimension. We first discuss the survival probability S(t) that a diffusing particle, in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-06-14 E. Ben-Naim , P. L. Krapivsky

Transport phenomena in spatially periodic systems far from thermal equilibrium are considered. The main emphasize is put on directed transport in so-called Brownian motors (ratchets), i.e. a dissipative dynamics in the presence of thermal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Peter Reimann

We show that the spine of the Fleming-Viot process driven by Brownian motion in a bounded Lipschitz domain with Lipschitz constant less than 1 converges to Brownian motion conditioned to stay in the domain forever.

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In pipe, channel and boundary layer flows turbulence first occurs intermittently in space and time: at moderate Reynolds numbers domains of disordered turbulent motion are separated by quiescent laminar regions. Based on direct numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-10-21 Marc Avila , Björn Hof

We study the maximum of a Brownian motion with a parabolic drift; this is a random variable that often occurs as a limit of the maximum of discrete processes whose expectations have a maximum at an interior point. We give series expansions…

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We computationally study the behavior of underdamped active Brownian particles in a sheared channel geometry. Due to their underdamped dynamics, the particles carry momentum a characteristic distance away from the boundary before it is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-10-23 Caleb G. Wagner , Michael F. Hagan , Aparna Baskaran

We consider the tail probabilities for Brownian exit time from a class of perturbed multi-strips in Euclidean plane. Under some assumptions we prove that the long stays in a perturbed multi-strip are more likely than those in a strip of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-07-04 M. Lifshits , A. Nazarov

Robust statistical features have emerged from the microscopic analysis of dense pedestrian flows through a bottleneck, notably with respect to the time gaps between successive passages. We pinpoint the mechanisms at the origin of these…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-02-14 Alexandre Nicolas , Ioannis Touloupas

Bottlenecks occur in a wide range of applications from pedestrian and traffic flow to mineral and food processing. We examine granular flow across a bottleneck using particle-based simulations. Contrary to expectations we find that the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-30 F. Alonso-Marroquin , S. I. Azeezullah , S. A. Galindo-Torres , L. M. Olsen-Kettle

We study the effect of a power law drift on Brownian motion in the positive half-line, where the order of the drift at 0 and infinity is different.

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Dante DeBlassie , Adina Oprisan , Robert G. Smits

We numerically investigate the transport of a suspended overdamped Brownian particle which is driven through a two-dimensional rectangular array of circular obstacles with finite radius. Two limiting cases are considered in detail, namely,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-01-06 P. K. Ghosh , P. Hanggi , F. Marchesoni , S. Martens , F. Nori , L. Schimansky-Geier , G. Schmid