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The time to first crossing for the Poisson counting process with respect to a linear moving barrier with offset is a classic problem, although key results remain scattered across the literature and their equivalence is often unclear. Here…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-07 Ivan N. Burenev , Michael J. Kearney , Satya N. Majumdar

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

Physical notions of stochastic resonance for potential diffusions in periodically changing double-well potentials such as the spectral power amplification have proved to be defective. They are not robust for the passage to their effective…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Samuel Herrmann , Peter Imkeller

We examine the mean first passage time for a particle driven by highly correlated Gaussian fluctuations to reach one or more predetermined boundaries. We discuss a numerical algorithm to generate power-law correlated fluctuations and apply…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Aldo H. Romero , J. M. Sancho , Katja Lindenberg

We consider the task of generating discrete-time realisations of a nonlinear multivariate diffusion process satisfying an It\^o stochastic differential equation conditional on an observation taken at a fixed future time-point. Such…

Computation · Statistics 2016-04-26 Gavin A. Whitaker , Andrew Golightly , Richard J. Boys , Chris Sherlock

The study of first passage times for diffusing particles reaching target states is foundational in various practical applications, including diffusion-controlled reactions. In this work, we present a bi-scaling theory for the probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-21 Talia Baravi , David A. Kessler , Eli Barkai

We consider a leaky integrate-and-fire neuron with deterministic subthreshold dynamics and a firing threshold that evolves as an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. The formulation of this minimal model is motivated by the experimentally observed…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-12 Wilhelm Braun , Paul C. Matthews , Rüdiger Thul

We investigate how confinement may drastically change both the probability density of the first-encounter time and the related survival probability in the case of two diffusing particles. To obtain analytical insights into this problem, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-16 F. Le Vot , S. B. Yuste , E. Abad , D. S. Grebenkov

In this article, we obtain properties of the law associated to the first hitting time of a threshold by a one-dimensional uniformly elliptic diffusion process and to the associated process stopped at the threshold. Our methodology relies on…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-30 Noufel Frikha , Arturo Kohatsu-Higa , Libo Li

The general, multidimensional barrier crossing problem for diffusive processes under the action of conservative forces is studied with the goal of developing tractable approximations. Particular attention is given to the effect of different…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-03 James F. Lutsko

Motivated by experiments in which single-stranded DNA with a short hairpin loop at one end undergoes unforced diffusion through a narrow pore, we study the first passage times for a particle, executing one-dimensional brownian motion in an…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2014-11-18 Rhonald C. Lua , Alexander Y. Grosberg

We derive a general exact formula for the mean first passage time (MFPT) from a fixed point inside a planar domain to an escape region on its boundary. The underlying mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary value problem is conformally mapped onto…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-03 Denis S. Grebenkov

The stochastic motion of particles in living cells is often spatially inhomogeneous with a higher effective diffusivity in a region close to the cell boundary due to active transport along actin filaments. As a first step to understand the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-25 Matthieu Mangeat , Heiko Rieger

A rapidly increasing number of systems is identified in which the stochastic motion of tracer particles follows the Brownian law $\langle\mathbf{r}^2(t) \rangle\simeq Dt$ yet the distribution of particle displacements is strongly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-30 V. Sposini , A. V. Chechkin , R. Metzler

How long a stochastic process survives before leaving a domain depends not only on its intrinsic dynamics but also on how it is observed. Classical first-passage theory assumes continuous monitoring with absorbing boundaries…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Lars Fritz

We explore the effect of stochastic resetting on the first-passage properties of space-dependent diffusion in presence of a constant bias. In our analytically tractable model system, a particle diffusing in a linear potential…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-23 Somrita Ray

Throughout physics Brownian dynamics are used to describe the behaviour of molecular systems. When the Brownian particle is confined to a bounded domain, a particularly important question arises around determining how long it takes the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Jason J. Bramburger

The first-passage time (FPT), defined as the time a random walker takes to reach a target point in a confining domain, is a key quantity in the theory of stochastic processes. Its importance comes from its crucial role to quantify the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-01 T. Guérin , N. Levernier , O. Bénichou , R. Voituriez

Often sharp changes in cellular behavior are triggered by thresholded events, i.e., by the attainment of a threshold value of a relevant cellular or molecular dynamical variable. Since the governing variable itself typically undergoes noisy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-03 Srividya Iyer-Biswas , Anton Zilman

The First Passage Time (FPT) is the time taken for a stochastic process to reach a desired threshold. In this letter we address the FPT of the stochastic measurement current in the case of continuously measured quantum systems. Our approach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-08 Michael J. Kewming , Anthony Kiely , Steve Campbell , Gabriel T. Landi