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The task of sampling from a probability density can be approached as transporting a tractable density function to the target, known as dynamical measure transport. In this work, we tackle it through a principled unified framework using…

This study investigates the first passage time (FPT) properties of particles with a broad class of positive stochastic diffusion coefficients (DCs), representing diffusion in heterogeneous environments or of particles with conformational…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-18 Go Uchida , Hiromi Miyoshi , Hitoshi Washizu

We study the first passage statistics to adsorbing boundaries of a Brownian motion in bounded two-dimensional domains of different shapes and configurations of the adsorbing and reflecting boundaries. From extensive numerical analysis we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-30 Thiago G. Mattos , Carlos Mejía-Monasterio , Ralf Metzler , Gleb S. Oshanin

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

Many biological, social, and communication systems can be modeled by ``searchers'' moving through a complex network. For example, intracellular cargo is transported on tubular networks, news and rumors spread through online social networks,…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-04 Sean D Lawley

We introduce a framework for the design of finite element methods for two-dimensional moving boundary problems with prescribed boundary evolution that have arbitrarily high order of accuracy, both in space and in time. At the core of our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Evan S. Gawlik , Adrian J. Lew

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

A generalised phase-space kinetic Boltzmann equation for highly non-equilibrium charged particle transport via localised and delocalised states is used to develop continuity, momentum and energy balance equations, accounting explicitly for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-19 Peter W. Stokes , Bronson Philippa , Daniel Cocks , Ronald D. White

We tackle the problem of sampling from intractable high-dimensional density functions, a fundamental task that often appears in machine learning and statistics. We extend recent sampling-based approaches that leverage controlled stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Dinghuai Zhang , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Cheng-Hao Liu , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio

We present a numerical analysis of a higher order unfitted space-time Finite Element method applied to a convection-diffusion model problem posed on a moving bulk domain. The method uses isoparametric space-time mappings for the geometry…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Fabian Heimann , Christoph Lehrenfeld , Janosch Preuß

We propose a methodology that combines generative latent diffusion models with physics-informed machine learning to generate solutions of parametric partial differential equations (PDEs) conditioned on partial observations, which includes,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Davide Gallon , Philippe von Wurstemberger , Patrick Cheridito , Arnulf Jentzen

In many physical situations, there appears the problem of reaching a single target that is spatially distributed. Here we analyse how stochastic resetting, also spatially distributed, can be used to improve the search process when the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-22 Gregorio García-Valladares , Carlos A. Plata , Antonio Prados , Alessandro Manacorda

Travel-time tomography seeks to recover a hidden environment from external measurements generated by propagation through an anomalous region. Standard formulations treat propagation as passive, so the environment influences observations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Longqiang Xu , Weishi Yin , Hongyu Liu

Time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs) often develop sharp fronts, localized peaks, and other moving structures that occupy only a small portion of the space--time domain but dominate the approximation error. This makes fixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Beining Xu , Bocheng Zhang , Haijun Yu , Zhao Zhang , Jiayu Zhai

We propose a space-time scheme that combines an unfitted finite element method in space with a discontinuous Galerkin time discretisation for the accurate numerical approximation of parabolic problems with moving domains or interfaces. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Santiago Badia , Hridya Dilip , Francesc Verdugo

Tracer diffusion in crowded environments is central to many biological and soft matter systems, but quantitative frameworks for linking tracer motion to environmental structure remain limited. Here, we study the transport of rigid tracers…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-07 Jinseok Lee , Tong Lin , Mengyang Gu , Yimin Luo

Recently a Dynamic-Monge-Kantorovich formulation of the PDE-based $L^1$-optimal transport problem was presented. The model considers a diffusion equation enforcing the balance of the transported masses with a time-varying conductivity that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-11 Enrico Facca , Franco Cardin , Mario Putti

Cellular networks are often composed of thin tubules connecting much larger node compartments. These structures serve for active or diffusion transport of proteins. Examples are glial networks in the brain, the endoplasmic reticulum in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-31 Frédéric Paquin-Lefebvre , Kanishka Basnayake , David Holcman

General first-order methods (GFOM) are a flexible class of iterative algorithms which update a state vector by matrix-vector multiplications and entrywise nonlinearities. A long line of work has sought to understand the large-n dynamics of…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Nicola Gorini , Chris Jones , Dmitriy Kunisky , Lucas Pesenti

Systems where resource availability approaches a critical threshold are common to many engineering and scientific applications and often necessitate the estimation of first passage time statistics of a Brownian motion (Bm) driven by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-04-05 Annalisa Molini , Peter Talkner , Gabriel G. Katul , Amilcare Porporato