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Intuition suggests that passage times across a region increases with the number of barriers along the path. Can this fail depending on the nature of the barrier? To probe this fundamental question, we exactly solve for the first passage…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-31 Moumita Dasgupta , Sougata Guha , Leon Armbruster , Dibyendu Das , Mithun K. Mitra

The encounter of diffusing entities underlies a wide range of natural phenomena. The dynamics of these first-passage dynamics are strongly influenced by confining geometries. Confinement modifies microscopic diffusion through conservative…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-22 Guirec de Tournemire , Nicolas Fares , Yacine Amarouchene , Thomas Salez

Restrictions to molecular motion by barriers (membranes) are ubiquitous in biological tissues, porous media and composite materials. A major challenge is to characterize the microstructure of a material or an organism nondestructively using…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-03-11 Dmitry S. Novikov , Els Fieremans , Jens H. Jensen , Joseph A. Helpern

We present a novel simulation-free framework for training continuous-time diffusion processes over very general objective functions. Existing methods typically involve either prescribing the optimal diffusion process -- which only works for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Mengjian Hua , Eric Vanden-Eijnden , Ricky T. Q. Chen

We propose a new Neural Galerkin Normalizing Flow framework to approximate the transition probability density function of a diffusion process by solving the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation with an atomic initial distribution,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Riccardo Saporiti , Fabio Nobile

The translocation time of a polymer chain through an interaction energy gradient nanopore was studied by Monte Carlo simulations and the Fokker-Planck equation with double-absorbing boundary conditions. Both the simulation and calculation…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-04 Meng-Bo Luo , Shuang Zhang , Fan Wu , Li-Zhen Sun

We derive the first-passage-time statistics of a Brownian motion driven by an exponential time-dependent drift up to a threshold. This process corresponds to the signal integration in a simple neuronal model supplemented with an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-30 Eugenio Urdapilleta

We study the first-passage properties of a random walk in the unit interval in which the length of a single step is uniformly distributed over the finite range [-a,a]. For a of the order of one, the exit probabilities to each edge of the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Antal , S. Redner

Through multiscale analysis of the adjoint Fokker-Planck equation, strict bounds are derived for the center of mass diffusivity of an overdamped harmonic chain in a periodic potential, often known as the discrete Frenkel-Kontorova model.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-07-30 T. D. Swinburne

We present a unified description of first-order cosmological phase transition dynamics that links the phenomenological friction model employed in hydrodynamic simulations to the microscopic treatment based on Boltzmann equations. We derive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-26 Tomasz Krajewski , Marek Lewicki , Marco Merchand , Ignacy Nałęcz , Mateusz Zych

Polymer translocation has long been a topic of interest in the field of biological physics given its relevance in both biological (protein and DNA/RNA translocation through nuclear and cell membranes) and technological processes (nanopore…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-09-11 Alejandro Sainz-Agost , Fernando Falo , Alessandro Fiasconaro

Polymer translocation across a corrugated channel is a paradigmatic stochastic process encountered in diverse systems. The instance of time when a polymer first arrives to some prescribed location defines an important characteristic time…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-01-30 Paolo Malgaretti , Gleb Oshanin

In this paper, we develop a Monte Carlo based algorithm for estimating the FPT density of a time-homogeneous SDE through a time-dependent frontier. We consider Brownian bridges as well as localized Daniels curve approximations to obtain…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-07-02 Imene Allab , Francois Watier

We study a generalization of the standard trapping problem of random walk theory in which particles move subdiffusively on a one-dimensional lattice. We consider the cases in which the lattice is filled with a one-sided and a two-sided…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. B. Yuste , L. Acedo

We consider in this paper subdiffusion in a system with a thin membrane. The subdiffusion parameters are the same in both parts of the system separated by the membrane. Using the random walk model with discrete time and space variables the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-23 Tadeusz Kosztolowicz

The survival probability and the first-passage-time statistics are important quantities in different fields. The Wiener process is the simplest stochastic processwith continuous variables, and important results can be explicitly found from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-02-15 Eugenio Urdapilleta

By using an exact solution to the time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation with a point source initial condition, we investigate both the time and spatial dependence of quantum waves in a step potential barrier. We find that for a source…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jorge Villavicencio , Roberto Romo , Sukey Sosa y Silva

Motivated by the diffusion-reaction kinetics on interstellar dust grains, we study a first-passage problem of mortal random walkers in a confined two-dimensional geometry. We provide an exact expression for the encounter probability of two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-02 Ingo Lohmar , Joachim Krug

We combine the processes of resetting and first-passage to define \emph{first-passage resetting}, where the resetting of a random walk to a fixed position is triggered by a first-passage event of the walk itself. In an infinite domain,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-22 B. De Bruyne , J. Randon-Furling , S. Redner

We calculate the mean shape of transition paths and first-passage paths based on the one-dimensional Fokker-Planck equation in an arbitrary free energy landscape including a general inhomogeneous diffusivity profile. The transition path…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-12-11 Won Kyu Kim , Roland R. Netz