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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

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

Subdiffusive motion of tracer particles in complex crowded environments, such as biological cells, has been shown to be widepsread. This deviation from brownian motion is usually characterized by a sublinear time dependence of the mean…

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

We present a general framework, applicable to a broad class of random walks on complex networks, which provides a rigorous lower bound for the mean first-passage time of a random walker to a target site averaged over its starting position,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 V. Tejedor , O. Bénichou , R. Voituriez

Many transport processes in ecology, physics and biochemistry can be described by the average time to first find a site or exit a region, starting from an initial position. Typical mathematical treatments are based on formulations that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-16 Thomas Hillen , Maria R. D'Orsogna , Jacob C. Mantooth , Alan E. Lindsay

We solve the problem of first-passage time for run-and-tumble particles in one dimension. Exact expression is derived for the mean first-passage time in the general case, considering external force-fields and chemotactic-fields, giving rise…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-29 L. Angelani , R. Di Leonardo , M. Paoluzzi

One-dimensional hopping model is useful to describe the motion of microscopic particle in thermal noise environment, such as motor proteins. Recent experiments about the new generation of light-driven rotary molecular motors found that, the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2010-07-06 Yunxin Zhang

A growing body of literature examines the effects of superdiffusive subballistic movement pre-measurement (ageing or time lag) on observations arising from single-particle tracking. A neglected aspect is the finite lifetime of these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-03 Helena Stage

We extend the random walk framework to include compounded steps, providing first-passage time (FPT) properties for a new class of superdiffusive processes, which are governed by the space-fractional spectral Fokker-Planck equation. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-14 Christopher N. Angstmann , Daniel S. Han , Bruce I. Henry , Boris Z. Huang

Models of imitation and herding behavior often underestimate the role of individualistic actions and assume symmetric boundary conditions. However, real-world systems (e.g., electoral processes) frequently involve asymmetric boundaries. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-03 Rytis Kazakevičius , Aleksejus Kononovicius

The first passage statistics of a continuous time random walker with Poisson distributed jumps on one and two dimensional infinite lattices is investigated. An exact expression for the probability of first return to the origin in one…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-13 Stephy Jose

An algebraic derivation is presented which yields the exact solution of the mean first-passage and mean residence times of a one-dimensional asymmetric random walk for quenched disorder. Two models of disorder are analytically treated.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Pedro A. Pury , Manuel O. Caceres

We have analyzed dynamics on the complex free energy landscape of protein folding in the FOLD-X model, by calculating for each state of the system the mean first passage time to the folded state. The resulting kinetic map of the folding…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. A. Micheelsen , C. Rischel , J. Ferkinghoff-Borg , R. Guerois , L. Serrano

A simple random walk and a Brownian motion are considered on a spider that is a collection of half lines (we call them legs) joined in the origin. We give a strong approximation of these two objects and their local times. For fixed number…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-12 Endre Csaki , Miklos Csorgo , Antonia Foldes , Pal Revesz

The study of first passage times for diffusing particles reaching target states is foundational in various practical applications, including diffusion-controlled reactions. In this work, we present a bi-scaling theory for the probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-21 Talia Baravi , David A. Kessler , Eli Barkai

Motivated by experiments in which single-stranded DNA with a short hairpin loop at one end undergoes unforced diffusion through a narrow pore, we study the first passage times for a particle, executing one-dimensional brownian motion in an…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2014-11-18 Rhonald C. Lua , Alexander Y. Grosberg

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

We investigate a tight binding quantum walk on a graph. Repeated stroboscopic measurements of the position of the particle yield a measured "trajectory", and a combination of classical and quantum mechanical properties for the walk are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-18 A. Didi , E. Barkai

We derive an approximate but explicit formula for the Mean First Passage Time of a random walker between a source and a target node of a directed and weighted network. The formula does not require any matrix inversion, and it takes as only…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-10 Silvia Bartolucci , Fabio Caccioli , Francesco Caravelli , Pierpaolo Vivo

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