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Einstein's kinetic theory of the Brownian motion, based upon light water molecules continuously bombarding a heavy pollen, provided an explanation of diffusion from the Newtonian mechanics. Since the discovery of quantum mechanics it has…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-09-07 Laszlo Erdos

The Fleming-Viot process describes a system of $N$ particles diffusing on a graph with an absorbing site. Whenever one of the particles is absorbed, it is replaced by a new particle at the position of one of the $N-1$ remaining particles.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-23 Éric Brunet , Bernard Derrida

The transport of particles in cells is influenced by the properties of intracellular networks they traverse while searching for localized target regions or reaction partners. Moreover, given the rapid turnover in many intracellular…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Lachlan Elam , Mónica C. Quiñones-Frías , Ying Zhang , Avital A. Rodal , Thomas G. Fai

Subdiffusion equation and molecule survival equation, both with Caputo fractional time derivatives with respect to another functions $g_1$ and $g_2$, respectively, are used to describe diffusion of a molecule that can disappear at any time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-14 Tadeusz Kosztołowicz

In line with the methodology introduced in our recent article for formulating probabilistic representations of integration by parts involving killed diffusion, we establish an integration by parts formula for the first exit time of…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-12 Noufel Frikha , Arturo Kohatsu-Higa , Libo Li

First passage phenomena arise across physics, biology, and finance when stochastic processes first reach a threshold, triggering downstream events. Examples include the irreversible exit from a domain, a biochemical reaction, a financial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-06 Maria R. D'Orsogna , Alan E. Lindsay , Thomas Hillen

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) show great advantages in solving partial differential equations. In this paper, we for the first time propose to study conformable time fractional diffusion equations by using PINNs. By solving the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-18 Yinlin Ye , Yajing Li , Hongtao Fan , Xinyi Liu , Hongbing Zhang

The one-dimensional overdamped Brownian motion in a symmetric periodic potential modulated by external time-reversible noise is analyzed. The calculation of the effective diffusion coefficient is reduced to the mean first passage time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Bernardo Spagnolo , Alexander Dubkov

The time of the first occurrence of a threshold crossing event in a stochastic process, known as the first passage time, is of interest in many areas of sciences and engineering. Conventionally, there is an implicit assumption that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-24 Aanjaneya Kumar , Aniket Zodage , M. S. Santhanam

We consider a 1-dimensional Brownian motion whose diffusion coefficient varies when it crosses the origin. We study the long time behavior and we establish different regimes, depending on the variations of the diffusion coefficient:…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-28 Nicolas Meunier , Clément Mouhot , Raphaël Roux

We investigate the first-passage properties of nearest-neighbor hopping on a finite interval with disordered hopping rates. We develop an approach that relies on the backward equation, in conjunction with probability generating functions,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-14 James Holehouse , S. Redner

Motivated by an approximation problem from mathematical finance, we analyse the stability of the boundary crossing probability for the multivariate Brownian motion process, with respect to small changes of the boundary. Under broad…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-03-11 S. McKinlay , K. Borovkov

The stochastic motion of particles in living cells is often spatially inhomogeneous with a higher effective diffusivity in a region close to the cell boundary due to active transport along actin filaments. As a first step to understand the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-25 Matthieu Mangeat , Heiko Rieger

A common scenario in a variety of biological systems is that multiple particles are searching in parallel for an immobile target located in a bounded domain, and the fastest among them that arrives to the target first triggers a given…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-15 Denis S. Grebenkov , Ralf Metzler , Gleb Oshanin

The Schr\"odinger integral-equation approach for calculating the classical first-passage time (C-fpt) probability density is extended to the case of quantum first-passage time (Q-fpt). Using this extension, we have calculated analytically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-10 Ranjith V. , N. Kumar

We study the inverse boundary crossing problem for diffusions. Given a diffusion process $X_t$, and a survival distribution $p$ on $[0,\infty)$, we demonstrate that there exists a boundary $b(t)$ such that $p(t)=\mathbb{P}[\tau >t]$, where…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-12-23 Xinfu Chen , Lan Cheng , John Chadam , David Saunders

Diffusion with an incorporated resetting mechanism provides a reference framework for modeling a wide range of natural phenomena. Within this framework, the optimal resetting rate is a key quantity that arises from the optimization of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-12 Pedro Julián-Salgado , Pavel Castro-Villarreal , Leonardo Dagdug , Denis Boyer

We prove that for a standard Brownian motion, there exists a first-passage-time density function through a locally H\"older continuous curve with exponent greater than 1/2. By using a property of local time of a standard Brownian motion and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-08 Jimyeong Lee

This paper is concerned with the mathematical analysis of the inverse random source problem for the time fractional diffusion equation, where the source is assumed to be driven by a fractional Brownian motion. Given the random source, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Xiaoli Feng , Peijun Li , Xu Wang

This paper deals with the three-dimensional narrow escape problem in dendritic spine shaped domain, which is composed of a relatively big head and a thin neck. The narrow escape problem is to compute the mean first passage time of Brownian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-02-24 Hyundae Lee , Xiaofei Li , Yuliang Wang