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We propose two methods for computing the large deviations of the first-passage-time statistics in general open quantum systems. The first method determines the region of convergence of the joint Laplace transform and the $z$-transform of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-25 Fei Liu , Jiayin Gu

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

We consider the general branching random walk under minimal assumptions, which in particular guarantee that the empirical particle distribution admits an almost sure central limit theorem. For such a process, we study the large time decay…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-12-07 Oren Louidor , Eliad Tsairi

We consider a random walk on the first quadrant of the square lattice, whose increment law is, roughly speaking, homogeneous along a finite number of half-lines near each of the two boundaries, and hence essentially specified by…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Conrado da Costa , Mikhail Menshikov , Andrew Wade

We consider multidimensional random walks in pyramids, which by definition are cones formed by finite intersections of half-spaces. The main object of interest is the survival probability $\mathbb{P}(\tau>n)$, $\tau$ denoting the first exit…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-06-29 Rodolphe Garbit , Kilian Raschel

In recent years, it has been well-established that adding a restart mechanism can alter the firstpassage statistics of a stochastic processes in useful and interesting ways. Though different mecha-nisms have been investigated, we derive a…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-09-09 Jason M. Flynn , Sergei S. Pilyugin

In this paper, we consider discrete time random walks on the pseudofractal scale-free web (PSFW) and we study analytically the related first passage properties. First, we classify the nodes of the PSFW into different levels and propose a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-13 Junhao Peng , Elena Agliari , Zhongzhi Zhang

We investigate the diffusive motion of an overdamped classical particle in a 1D random potential using the mean first-passage time formalism and demonstrate the efficiency of this method in the investigation of the large-time dynamics of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 D. A. Gorokhov , G. Blatter

Even after decades of research the problem of first passage time statistics for quantum dynamics remains a challenging topic of fundamental and practical importance. Using a projective measurement approach, with a sampling time $\tau$, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-05 Harel Friedman , David A. Kessler , Eli Barkai

We present a closed-form expression for the survival probability of a biased random walker to first reach a target site on a 1D lattice. The expression holds for any step number $N$ and is computationally faster than non-closed-form results…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-02 Debendro Mookerjee , Sarah Kostinski

Random walk is one of the most classical and well-studied model in probability theory. For two correlated random walks on lattice, every step of the random walks has only two states, moving in the same direction or moving in the opposite…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Tianyao Chen , Xue Cheng , Jingping Yang

Given a discrete-time non-lattice supercritical branching random walk in $\mathbb{R}^d$, we investigate its first passage time to a shifted unit ball of a distance $x$ from the origin, conditioned upon survival. We provide precise…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Jose Blanchet , Zhenyuan Zhang

In this paper we consider an irreducible random walk on the integer lattice $\mathbb{Z}$ that is in the domain of normal attraction of a strictly stable process with index $\alpha\in (1, 2)$ and obtain the asymptotic form of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-07 Kohei Uchiyama

Relatively general techniques for computing mean first-passage time (MFPT) of random walks on networks with a specific property are very useful, since a universal method for calculating MFPT on general graphs is not available because of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-10-01 Yuan Lin , Bin Wu , Zhongzhi Zhang

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

Random walks are fundamental models of stochastic processes with applications in various fields including physics, biology, and computer science. We study classical and quantum random walks under the influence of stochastic resetting on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-20 Sascha Wald , Lucas Böttcher

We study an exactly solvable random walk model with long-range memory on arbitrary networks. The walker performs unbiased random steps to nearest-neighbor nodes and intermittently resets to previously visited nodes in a preferential way,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-11 Ana Gabriela Guerrero-Estrada , Alejandro P. Riascos , Denis Boyer

We propose the first return time distribution (FRTD) of a random walk as an interpretable and mathematically grounded node embedding. The FRTD assigns a probability mass function to each node, allowing us to define a distance between any…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Vedanta Thapar , Renaud Lambiotte , George T. Cantwell

First-passage properties are central to the kinetics of target-search processes. Theoretical approaches so far primarily focused on predicting first-passage statistics for a given process or model. In practice, however, one faces the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-08 Rick Bebon , Aljaz Godec

We consider a simple random walk on the T-fractal and we calculate the exact mean time $\tau^g$ to first reach the central node $i_0$. The mean is performed over the set of possible walks from a given origin and over the set of starting…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-02-18 E. Agliari