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Efficiently controlling the trapping process, especially the trapping efficiency, is central in the study of trap problem in complex systems, since it is a fundamental mechanism for diverse other dynamic processes. Thus, it is of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-07-12 Bin Wu , Zhongzhi Zhang

We determine the survival probability and first-passage time (FPT) to capture for a harmonically trapped particle, diffusing outside an absorbing spherical boundary by directly solving the differential equation for the survival probability.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Tianyu Yuan , Ivan Surovtsev , Megan C. King , Simon G. J. Mochrie

We address the problem of minimizing the expected first-passage time of a Brownian motion with Poissonian resetting, with respect to the resetting rate $r.$ We consider both the one-boundary and the two-boundary cases.We investigate the…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Mario Abundo

We investigate the full functional form of the first passage time density (FPTD) of a tracer particle in a single-file diffusion (SFD) system whose population is: (i) homogeneous, i.e., all particles having the same diffusion constant and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-05-10 Lloyd P. Sanders , Tobias Ambjornsson

The mean first-passage time (MFPT) is one standard measure for the reaction time in thermally activated barrier-crossing processes. While the relationship between MFPTs and phenomenological rate coefficients is known for systems that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-12 Qingyuan Zhou , Roland R. Netz , Benjamin A. Dalton

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

Many transport processes in ecology, physics and biochemistry can be described by the average time to first find a site or exit a region, starting from an initial position. Typical mathematical treatments are based on formulations that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-16 Thomas Hillen , Maria R. D'Orsogna , Jacob C. Mantooth , Alan E. Lindsay

We consider a Brownian particle diffusing in a one dimensional interval with absorbing end points. We study the ramifications when such motion is interrupted and restarted from the same initial configuration. We provide a comprehensive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-01 Arnab Pal , V. V. Prasad

The mean first-passage time (MFPT) for a Brownian particle to surmount a potential barrier of height $\Delta U$ is a fundamental quantity governing a wide array of physical and chemical processes. According to the Arrhenius Law, the MFPT…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-24 Vishwajeet Kumar , Ohad Shpielberg , Arnab Pal

We investigate the mean first passage time of an active Brownian particle in one dimension using numerical simulations. The activity in one dimension is modeled as a two state model; the particle moves with a constant propulsion strength…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-14 Alberto Scacchi , Abhinav Sharma

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

First passage time (FPT) is the time a particle, subject to some stochastic process, hits or crosses a closed surface for the very first time. $\tau$-leaping methods are a class of stochastic algorithms in which, instead of simulating every…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2023-01-03 Jaroslav Albert

An approach was developed to describe the first passage time (FPT) in multistep stochastic processes with discrete states governed by a master equation (ME). The approach is an extension of the totally absorbing boundary approach given for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-15 Babak Shotorban

The first-passage time (FPT) is a fundamental concept in stochastic processes, representing the time it takes for a process to reach a specified threshold for the first time. Often, considering a time-dependent threshold is essential for…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Devika Khurana , Sascha Desmettre , Evelyn Buckwar

We use a first-passage time approach to study the statistics of the trapping times induced by persistent motion of active particles colliding with flat boundaries. The angular first-passage time distribution and mean first-passage time is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-02 Emily Qing Zang Moen , Kristian Stølevik Olsen , Jonas Rønning , Luiza Angheluta

In this paper, we analyze the mean first passage time (MFPT) for a single Brownian particle to find a stochastically-gated target under the additional condition that the position of the particle is reset to a fixed position $\x_r$ at a rate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-28 Paul C Bressloff

In this work we propose a novel method to calculate mean first-passage times (MFPTs) for random walks on graphs, based on a dimensionality reduction technique for Markov State Models, known as local-equilibrium (LE). We show that for a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-09 Yanik-Pascal Förster , Luca Gamberi , Evan Tzanis , Pierpaolo Vivo , Alessia Annibale

We study stationary fluctuations in two models involving $N$ Brownian particles undergoing stochastic resetting to the origin in 1d. We start with the basic reset model where the particles reset independently (model A). Then we introduce…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-31 Ohad Vilk , Michael Assaf , Baruch Meerson

An efficient and accurate iterative scheme for the computation of the mean first passage times (MFPTs) of ergodic Markov chains has been presented. Firstly, the computation problem of MFPTs is transformed into a set of linear equations. It…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Yaming Chen

In this paper we present a computation of the mean first-passage times both for a random walk in a discrete bounded lattice, between a starting site and a target site, and for a Brownian motion in a bounded domain, where the target is a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sylvain Condamin , Olivier Bénichou , Michel Moreau