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We analyze the escape of Brownian particles over potential barriers using the Fokker-Planck equation in a similar way to that of Chandrasekhar (Rev. Modern Phys., 1943), deriving a formula for the particle deposition velocity to a surface…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-05 Michael W. Reeks

We study the narrow escape problem in the disk, which consists in identifying the first exit time and first exit point distribution of a Brownian particle from the ball in dimension 2, with reflecting boundary conditions except on small…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Tony Lelièvre , Mohamad Rachid , Gabriel Stoltz

In line with the methodology introduced in our recent article for formulating probabilistic representations of integration by parts involving killed diffusion, we establish an integration by parts formula for the first exit time of…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-12 Noufel Frikha , Arturo Kohatsu-Higa , Libo Li

We consider a Brownian particle performing an overdamped motion in a power-law repulsive potential. If the potential grows with the distance faster than quadratically, the particle escapes to infinity in a finite time. We determine the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-03 P. L. Krapivsky , Baruch Meerson

We consider a Brownian particle with diffusion coefficient $D$ in a $d$-dimensional ball of radius $R$ with reflecting boundaries. We study the maximum $M_x(t)$ of the trajectory of the particle along the $x$-direction at time $t$. In the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-13 Benjamin De Bruyne , Olivier Bénichou , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

We study the dynamics of an overdamped Brownian particle in a thermal bath that contains a dilute solution of active particles. The particle moves in a harmonic potential and experiences Poisson shot-noise kicks with specified amplitude…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-18 Costantino Di Bello , Rita Majumdar , Rahul Marathe , Ralf Metzler , Edgar Roldan

We derive asymptotic formulas for the mean exit time $\bar{\tau}^{N}$ of the fastest among $N$ identical independently distributed Brownian particles to an absorbing boundary for various initial distributions (partially uniformly and…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-07-07 Suney Toste , David Holcman

Anomalous diffusion is predicted for Brownian particles in inhomogeneous viscosity landscapes by means of scaling arguments, which are substantiated through numerical simulations. Analytical solutions of the related Fokker-Planck equation…

We consider the influence of active speed fluctuations on the dynamics of a $d$-dimensional active Brownian particle performing a persistent stochastic motion. We use the Laplace transform of the Fokker-Planck equation to obtain exact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-08 Amir Shee , Debasish Chaudhuri

We investigate the escape behavior of systems governed by the one-dimensional nonlinear diffusion equation $\partial_t \rho = \partial_x[\partial_x U\rho] + D\partial^2_x \rho^\nu$, where the potential of the drift, $U(x)$, presents a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. K. Lenzi , C. Anteneodo , L. Borland

We prove a central limit theorem for the momentum distribution of a particle undergoing an unbiased spatially periodic random forcing at exponentially distributed times without friction. The start is a linear Boltzmann equation for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Jeremy Clark , Christian Maes

The extreme value statistics of active matter offer significant insight into their unique properties. A phase transition has recently been reported in a model of branching run-and-tumble particles, describing the spatial spreading of an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-11 Bertrand Lacroix-A-Chez-Toine , Asaf Miron

The narrow escape problem is a first-passage problem concerned with randomly moving particles in a physical domain, being trapped by absorbing surface traps (windows), such that the measure of traps is small compared to the domain size. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Vaibhava Srivastava , Alexei Cheviakov

Einstein's explanation of Brownian motion provided one of the cornerstones which underlie the modern approaches to stochastic processes. His approach is based on a random walk picture and is valid for Markovian processes lacking long-term…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. M. Sokolov , J. Klafter

Overdamped Brownian motion of a self-propelled particle is studied by solving the Langevin equation analytically. On top of translational and rotational diffusion, in the context of the presented model, the "active" particle is driven along…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-15 Borge ten Hagen , Sven van Teeffelen , Hartmut Löwen

The time it takes the fastest searcher out of $N\gg1$ searchers to find a target determines the timescale of many physical, chemical, and biological processes. This time is called an extreme first passage time (FPT) and is typically much…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-12-10 Sean D Lawley

Fastest arrival events, where the first among many diffusing particles reaches a target, are central in triggering signal initiation in molecular stochastic systems. Classical approaches to simulate such events rely on full trajectory…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Emmanuel Akame Mfoumou , David Holcman

Understanding the spread of infectious diseases requires integrating movement, physical constraints, and spatial configurations into epidemiological models. In this study, we investigate how particle diffusivity, hardcore interactions, and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-17 Kaito Takahashi , Makiko Sasada , Takuma Akimoto

What is the path associated with the fastest Brownian particle that reaches a narrow window located on the boundary of a domain? Although the distribution of the fastest arrival times has been well studied in dimension 1, much less is known…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-01 Kanishka Basnayake , Akim Hubl , Zeev Schuss , David Holcman

The diffusion equation is the primary tool to study the movement dynamics of a free Brownian particle, but when spatial heterogeneities in the form of permeable interfaces are present, no fundamental equation has been derived. Here we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-14 Toby Kay , Luca Giuggioli