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The Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process of diffusion in the harmonic potential is re-examined in the context of the first-passage time problem. We investigate this problem to the extent that it has not yet been fully resolved and demonstrate exact…

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We present a general framework to study the distribution of the flux through the origin up to time $t$, in a non-interacting one-dimensional system of particles with a step initial condition with a fixed density $\rho$ of particles to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-06 Tirthankar Banerjee , Satya N. Majumdar , Alberto Rosso , Gregory Schehr

In this paper, we derive explicit formulas for the surface averaged first exit time of a discrete random walk on a finite lattice. We consider a wide class of random walks and lattices, including random walks in a non-trivial potential…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Condamin , O. Benichou , M. Moreau

We formulate the first order Fermi acceleration in parallel shock waves in terms of the random walk theory. The formulation is applicable to any value of the shock speed and the particle speed, in particular to the acceleration in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. N. Kato , F. Takahara

We study the first-passage properties of a jump process with constant drift where jump amplitudes and inter-arrival times follow arbitrary light-tailed distributions with smooth densities. Using a mapping to an effective discrete-time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-25 Ivan N. Burenev

We study the stochastic dynamics of a particle with two distinct motility states. Each one is characterized by two parameters: one represents the average speed and the other represents the persistence quantifying the tendency to maintain…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-16 M. Reza Shaebani , Heiko Rieger

Adsorption to a surface, reversible-binding, and trapping are all prevalent scenarios where particles exhibit "stickiness". Escape and first-passage times are known to be drastically affected, but detailed understanding of this phenomenon…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-06 Yuval Scher , Shlomi Reuveni , Denis S. Grebenkov

We consider a particle which moves on the x axis and is subject to a constant force, such as gravity, plus a random force in the form of Gaussian white noise. We analyze the statistics of first arrival at point $x_1$ of a particle which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-19 Theodore W. Burkhardt

We propose a model of run-and-tumble particles (RTPs) on a line with a fertile site at the origin. After going through the fertile site, a run-and-tumble particle gives rise to new particles until it flips direction. The process of creation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-11 Pascal Grange , Xueqi Yao

Motivated by various recent experimental findings, we propose a dynamical model of intermittently self-propelled particles: active particles that recurrently switch between two modes of motion, namely an active run-state and a turn state,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-30 Agniva Datta , Carsten Beta , Robert Großmann

In this paper we develop a field-theoretic description for run and tumble chemotaxis, based on a density functional description of crystalline materials modified to capture orientational ordering. We show that this framework, with its…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-10 Purba Chatterjee , Nigel Goldenfeld

We study the long-time asymptotic behavior of the position distribution of a run-and-tumble particle (RTP) in two dimensions and show that the distribution at a time $t$ can be expressed as a perturbative series in $(\gamma t)^{-1}$, where…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-24 Ion Santra , Urna Basu , Sanjib Sabhapandit

We obtain an exact formula for the first-passage time probability distribution for random walks on complex networks using inverse Laplace transform. We write the formula as the summation of finitely many terms with different frequencies…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-17 Mucong Ding , Kwok Yip Szeto

The connection between absorbing boundary conditions and hard walls is well established in the mathematical literature for a variety of stochastic models, including for instance the Brownian motion. In this paper we explore this duality for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-24 Mathis Guéneau , Léo Touzo

We study the local entropy production rate and the local entropy flow in active systems composed of non-interacting run-and-tumble particles in a thermal bath. After providing generic time-dependend expressions, we focus on the stationary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-10 Matteo Paoluzzi , Andrea Puglisi , Luca Angelani

Advection and dispersion in highly heterogeneous environments involving interfacial discontinuities in the corresponding drift and dispersion rates are described through disparate examples from the physical and biological sciences. A…

We consider the thermal and athermal overdamped motion of particles in 1D geometries where discrete internal degrees of freedom (spin) are coupled with the translational motion. Adding a driving velocity that depends on the time-dependent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-21 Thibaut Demaerel , Christian Maes

In this paper, we consider the problem of mean first-passage time (MFPT) in quantum mechanics; the MFPT is the average time of the transition from a given initial state, passing through some intermediate states, to a given final state for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Rong-Tao Qiu , Wu-Sheng Dai , Mi Xie

The extreme value statistics of active matter offer significant insight into their unique properties. A phase transition has recently been reported in a model of branching run-and-tumble particles, describing the spatial spreading of an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-11 Bertrand Lacroix-A-Chez-Toine , Asaf Miron

The first passage is a generic concept for quantifying when a random quantity such as the position of a diffusing molecule or the value of a stock crosses a preset threshold (target) for the first time. The last decade saw an enlightening…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-26 Aljaz Godec , Ralf Metzler