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A large and sparse random graph with independent exponentially distributed link weights can be used to model the propagation of messages or diseases in a network with an unknown connectivity structure. In this article we study an extended…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Lasse Leskelä , Hoa Ngo

In this paper, we study random walks on a small-world scale-free network, also called as pseudofractal scale-free web (PSFW), and analyze the volatilities of first passage time (FPT) and first return time (FRT) by using the variance and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-21 Junhao Peng

We provide an exact formula for the mean first-passage time (MFPT) to a target at the origin for a single particle diffusing on a $d$-dimensional hypercubic {\em lattice} starting from a fixed initial position $\vec R_0$ and resetting to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-30 Alexander K. Hartmann , Satya N. Majumdar

Anomalous subdiffusion characterizes transport in diverse physical systems and is especially prevalent inside biological cells. In cell biology, the prevailing model for chemical activation rates has recently changed from the first passage…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-10-26 Sean D Lawley

Many scientific questions can be framed as asking for a first passage time (FPT), which generically describes the time it takes a random "searcher" to find a "target." The important timescale in a variety of biophysical systems is the time…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Hwai-Ray Tung , Sean D Lawley

It is known that the heterogeneity of scale-free networks helps enhancing the efficiency of trapping processes performed on them. In this paper, we show that transport efficiency is much lower in a fractal scale-free network than in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-18 Zhongzhi Zhang , Wenlei Xie , Shuigeng Zhou , Shuyang Gao , Jihong Guan

We study first passage percolation on the configuration model (CM) having power-law degrees with exponent $\tau\in [1,2)$. To this end we equip the edges with exponential weights. We derive the distributional limit of the minimal weight of…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-05-28 Shankar Bhamidi , Remco van der Hofstad , Gerard Hooghiemstra

When particles/molecules diffuse in systems that contain obstacles, the steady-state regime (during which the mean-square displacement scales linearly with time, $\left< r^2 \right> \sim t$) is preceded by a transient regime. It is common…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-08-12 Nicholas Ilow , Gary W. Slater

We considered diffusion-driven processes on small-world networks with distance-dependent random links. The study of diffusion on such networks is motivated by transport on randomly folded polymer chains, synchronization problems in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-09-05 Balazs Kozma , Matthew B. Hastings , G. Korniss

We study diffusion of a particle in a system composed of K parallel channels, where the transition rates within the channels are quenched random variables whereas the inter-channel transition rate v is homogeneous. A variant of the strong…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-14 R. Juhász , F. Iglói

Many events in biology are triggered when a diffusing searcher finds a target, which is called a first passage time (FPT). The overwhelming majority of FPT studies have analyzed the time it takes a single searcher to find a target. However,…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-10-23 Sean D Lawley

The diffusion of a particle in a crowded environment typically proceeds through three regimes: for very short times the particle diffuses freely until it collides with an obstacle for the first time, while for very long times diffusion the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Nguiya P. Neo , Gary W. Slater

We discuss the combined effects of overdamped motion in a quenched random potential and diffusion, in one dimension, in the limit where the diffusion coefficient is small. Our analysis considers the statistics of the mean first-passage time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-19 Michael Wilkinson , Marc Pradas , Gerhard Kling

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

A vast variety of real-life networks display the ubiquitous presence of scale-free phenomenon and small-world effect, both of which play a significant role in the dynamical processes running on networks. Although various dynamical processes…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-07-19 Zhongzhi Zhang , Shuigeng Zhou , Wenlei Xie , Lichao Chen , Yuan Lin , Jihong Guan

We study the fluctuation properties and return-time statistics on inhomogeneous scale-free networks using packets moving with two different dynamical rules; random diffusion and locally navigated diffusive motion with preferred edges.…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-25 Bernard Kujawski , Bosiljka Tadic , Geoff J. Rodgers

We perform an in-depth study for mean first-passage time (MFPT)---a primary quantity for random walks with numerous applications---of maximal-entropy random walks (MERW) performed in complex networks. For MERW in a general network, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-17 Yuan Lin , Zhongzhi Zhang

We theoretically study the transport properties of self-propelled particles on complex structures, such as motor proteins on filament networks. A general master equation formalism is developed to investigate the persistent motion of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-19 M. Reza Shaebani , Zeinab Sadjadi , Igor M. Sokolov , Heiko Rieger , Ludger Santen

We derive the asymptotic first passage time (FPT) distribution for space-dependent variable-order time-fractional diffusion, where the fractional exponent $\alpha(x)$ varies with position. For any sufficiently smooth $\alpha(x)$ on a finite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-16 Wancheng Li , Daniel S. Han

We consider the problem of determining asymptotic bounds on the capacity of a random ad hoc network. Previous approaches assumed a link layer model in which if a transmitter-receiver pair can communicate with each other, i.e., the Signal to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-11-24 Vivek P. Mhatre , Catherine P. Rosenberg , Ravi R. Mazumdar