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During a random search, resetting the searcher's position from time to time to the starting point often reduces the mean completion time of the process. Although many different resetting models have been studied over the past ten years,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-15 Gabriel Mercado-Vásquez , Denis Boyer , Satya N. Majumdar

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 the first-passage dynamics of symmetric and asymmetric L\'evy flights in a semi-infinite and bounded intervals. By solving the space-fractional diffusion equation, we analyse the fractional-order moments of the first-passage…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Amin Padash , Aleksei V. Chechkin , Bartłomiej Dybiec , Marcin Magdziarz , Babak Shokri , Ralf Metzler

Stochastic resetting is a protocol of starting anew, which can be used to facilitate the escape kinetics. We demonstrate that restarting can accelerate the escape kinetics from a finite interval restricted by two absorbing boundaries also…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-24 Bartosz Żbik , Bartłomiej Dybiec

Search strategies based on random walk processes with long-tailed jump length distributions (Levy walks) on the one hand and intermittent behavior switching between local search and ballistic relocation phases on the other, have been…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-09-17 Michael A. Lomholt , Tal Koren , Ralf Metzler , Joseph Klafter

Levy flights are known to be optimal search strategies in the particular case of revisitable targets. In the relevant situation of non revisitable targets, we propose an alternative model of bidimensional search processes, which explicitly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 O. Benichou , C. Loverdo , M. Moreau , R. Voituriez

We determine the full distribution and moments of the first passage time for a wide class of stochastic search processes in the limit of frequent stochastic resetting. Our results apply to any system whose short-time behavior of the search…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-22 Samantha Linn , Sean D Lawley

We investigate two coupled properties of Levy stable random motions: The first passage times (FPTs) and the first passage leapovers (FPLs). While, in general, the FPT problem has been studied quite extensively, the FPL problem has hardly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-12-08 T. Koren , A. V. Chechkin , J. Klafter

We analyze a one-dimensional intermittent random walk on an unbounded domain in the presence of stochastic resetting. In this process, the walker alternates between local intensive search, diffusion, and rapid ballistic relocations in which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-31 Rosa Flaquer-Galmés , Daniel Campos , Vicenç Méndez

We consider a continuous-time random walk model with finite-mean waiting-times and we study the mean first-passage time (MFPT) as estimated by an observer in a reference frame $\mathcal{S}$, that is co-moving with a target, and by an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-14 Marcus Dahlenburg , Gianni Pagnini

In many physical situations, there appears the problem of reaching a single target that is spatially distributed. Here we analyse how stochastic resetting, also spatially distributed, can be used to improve the search process when the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-22 Gregorio García-Valladares , Carlos A. Plata , Antonio Prados , Alessandro Manacorda

The kinetics of a variety of transport-controlled processes can be reduced to the problem of determining the mean time needed to arrive at a given location for the first time, the so called mean first passage time (MFPT) problem. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Aljaz Godec , Ralf Metzler

First passage time (FPT) theory is often used to estimate timescales in cellular and molecular biology. While the overwhelming majority of studies have focused on the time it takes a given single Brownian searcher to reach a target,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-03-13 Sean D. Lawley , Jacob B. Madrid

We investigate the first passage time beyond a barrier located at $b\geq0$ of a random walk with independent and identically distributed jumps, starting from $x_0=0$. The walk is subject to stochastic resetting, meaning that after each step…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-12 Mattia Radice , Giampaolo Cristadoro , Samudrajit Thapa

The transport properties of discrete-time random walks on ring networks with deterministic shortcuts are investigated through analytical and numerical methods. The network consists of a periodic chain where each node is connected to its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-30 Oscar Ivan Torres Mena , Francisco J Sevilla

Optimal random foraging strategy has gained increasing concentrations. It is shown that L\'evy flight is more efficient compared with the Brownian motion when the targets are sparse. However, standard L\'evy flight generally cannot be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-06-05 Yuquan Chen , Derek Hollenbeck , Yong Wang , YangQuan Chen

We study first-passage time problems for a diffusive particle with stochastic resetting with a finite rate $r$. The optimal search time is compared quantitatively with that of an effective equilibrium Langevin process with the same…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 Martin R. Evans , Satya N. Majumdar , Kirone Mallick

We consider a minimal model of persistent random searcher with short range memory. We calculate exactly for such searcher the mean first-passage time to a target in a bounded domain and find that it admits a non trivial minimum as function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-28 V. Tejedor , R. Voituriez , O. Bénichou

The L\'evy walk process for the lower interval of the time of flight distribution ($\alpha<1$) and with finite resting time between consecutive flights is discussed. The motion is restricted to a region bounded by two absorbing barriers and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-19 A. Kamińska , T. Srokowski

We study the statistics of the first-passage time of a single run and tumble particle (RTP) in one spatial dimension, with or without resetting, to a fixed target located at $L>0$. First, we compute the first-passage time distribution of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-20 Gennaro Tucci , Andrea Gambassi , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr