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The problem of a diffusing particle moving among diffusing traps is analyzed in general space dimension d. We consider the case where the traps are initially randomly distributed in space, with uniform density rho, and derive upper and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. A. Blythe , A. J. Bray

We investigate the long-time behavior of the survival probability of a tagged particle in a single-file diffusion in a finite interval. The boundary conditions are of two types: 1) one boundary is absorbing the second is reflecting, 2) both…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-01 Artem Ryabov

It has been alleged in several papers that the so called delayed continuous-time random walks (DCTRWs) provide a model for the one-dimensional telegraph equation at microscopic level. This conclusion, being widespread now, is strange, since…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-01 Sergey A. Rukolaine , Alexander M. Samsonov

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

A detailed study is presented for a large class of uncoupled continuous-time random walks (CTRWs). The master equation is solved for the Mittag-Leffler survival probability. The properly scaled diffusive limit of the master equation is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Enrico Scalas , Rudolf Gorenflo , Francesco Mainardi

We consider a model system in which anomalous diffusion is generated by superposition of underlying linear modes with a broad range of relaxation times. In the language of Gaussian polymers, our model corresponds to Rouse (Fourier) modes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-11 Assaf Amitai , Yacov Kantor , Mehran Kardar

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

In an attempt to extend the mode coupling theory (MCT) to lower temperatures, an Unified theory was proposed which within the MCT framework incorporated the activated dynamics via the random first order transition theory (RFOT). Here we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-01-08 Manoj Kumar Nandi , Sarika Maitra Bhattacharyya

The first passage search of a diffusing target (prey) by multiple searchers (predators) in confinement is an important problem in the stochastic process literature. While the analogous problem in open space has been studied in some details,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-04 Indrani Nayak , Amitabha Nandi , Dibyendu Das

Laplace's first law of errors, which states that the frequency of an error can be represented as an exponential function of the error magnitude, was overlooked for many decades but was recently shown to describe the statistical behavior of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-13 Lucianno Defaveri , Eli Barkai

For transport processes in geometrically restricted domains, the mean first-passage time (MFPT) admits a general scaling dependence on space parameters for diffusion, anomalous diffusion, and diffusion in disordered or fractal media. For…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-05 Eric Akkermans , Olivier Benichou , Gerald Dunne , Alexander Teplyaev , Raphael Voituriez

A random walk problem with particles on discrete double infinite linear grids is discussed. The model is based on the work of Montroll and others. A probability connected with the problem is given in the form of integrals containing…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. B. Sanders , N. M. Temme

Previous work shows that the mean first-passage time (MFPT) for random walks to a given hub node (node with maximum degree) in uncorrelated random scale-free networks is closely related to the exponent $\gamma$ of power-law degree…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-12 Zhongzhi Zhang , Shuyang Gao , Wenlei Xie

Continuous-time random walk (CTRW) is a model of anomalous sub-diffusion in which particles are immobilized for random times between successive jumps. A power-law distribution of the waiting times, $\psi(\tau) \tau^{-(1+\alpha)}$, leads to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-06 Shai Carmi , Eli Barkai

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

The ``first passage-time'' (FPT) problem is an important problem with a wide range of applications in mathematics, physics, biology and finance. Mathematically, such a problem can be reduced to estimating the probability of a (stochastic)…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Di Zhang , Roderick V. N. Melnik

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

We study the distribution of dynamical quantities in various one-dimensional, disordered models the critical behavior of which is described by an infinite randomness fixed point. In the {\it disordered contact process}, the quenched…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-18 Róbert Juhász

In this paper we investigate the porous medium equation with a fractional temporal derivative. We justify that the resulting equation emerges when we consider the waiting-time (or trapping) phenomenon that can happen in the medium. Our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Łukasz Płociniczak

In this paper, we propose a general framework for the trapping problem on a weighted network with a perfect trap fixed at an arbitrary node. By utilizing the spectral graph theory, we provide an exact formula for mean first-passage time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-07-04 Yuan Lin , Zhongzhi Zhang