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Renewal theory is finding increasing applications in non-equilibrium statistical physics. One example relates the probability density and survival probability of a Brownian particle or an active run-and-tumble particle with stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-04 Paul C Bressloff

The long-time behavior of a reaction-diffusion front between one static (e.g. porous solid) reactant A and one initially separated diffusing reactant B is analyzed for the mean-field reaction-rate density R(\rho_A,\rho_B) =…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Martin Z. Bazant , Howard A. Stone

We report some additional examples of explicit solutions to an inverse first-passage place problem for one-dimensional diffusions with jumps, introduced in a previous paper. If $X(t)$ is a one-dimensional diffusion with jumps, starting from…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-22 Mario Abundo

Reaction-diffusion equations are studied on bounded, time-periodic domains with zero Dirichlet boundary conditions. The long-time behaviour is shown to depend on the principal periodic eigenvalue of a transformed periodic-parabolic problem.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Jane Allwright

Inference-time controllable generation is essential for real-world applications of unconditional diffusion models. However, most existing techniques focus on individual samples, struggling in applications that require the sample population…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Hao Luan , See-Kiong Ng , Chun Kai Ling

We study first-passage time problems for a diffusive particle with stochastic resetting with a finite rate $r$. The optimal search time is compared quantitatively with that of an effective equilibrium Langevin process with the same…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 Martin R. Evans , Satya N. Majumdar , Kirone Mallick

Continuous-time stochastic processes play an important role in the description of random phenomena, it is therefore of prime interest to study particular variables depending on their paths, like stopping time for example. One approach…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-09 Samuel Herrmann , Nicolas Massin

The first-passage time (FPT), i.e., the moment when a stochastic process reaches a given threshold value for the first time, is a fundamental mathematical concept with immediate applications. In particular, it quantifies the statistics of…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2018-12-05 Denis S. Grebenkov , Ralf Metzler , Gleb Oshanin

In the setting of non-reversible Markov chains on finite or countable state space, exact results on the distribution of the first hitting time to a given set $G$ are obtained. A new notion of "strong metastability time" is introduced to…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-01 F. Manzo , E. Scoppola

We consider a reaction-diffusion system where some components react and diffuse on the boundary of a region, while other components diffuse in the interior and react with those on the boundary through mass transport. We establish criteria…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-31 Vandana Sharma , Jeff Morgan

How much time does it take two molecules to react? If a reaction occurs upon contact, the answer to this question boils down to the classic first-passage time problem: find the time it takes the two molecules to meet. However, this is not…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-12 Yuval Scher , Shlomi Reuveni

A general topic of current interest is the analysis of diffusion problems in singularly perturbed domains with small interior targets or traps (the narrow capture problem). One major application is to intracellular diffusion, where the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-13 Paul C. Bressloff

We study the first-passage time to the origin of a mortal Brownian particle, with mortality rate $ \mu $, diffusing in one dimension. The particle starts its motion from $ x>0 $ and it is subject to stochastic resetting with constant rate $…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-01 Mattia Radice

We determine how long a diffusing particle spends in a given spatial range before it dies at an absorbing boundary. In one dimension, for a particle that starts at $x_0$ and is absorbed at $x=0$, the average residence time in the range…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-23 J. Randon-Furling , S. Redner

In this paper we consider a threshold surface absorption mechanism for a particle diffusing in a domain containing a single target $\calU $. The target boundary $\partial \calU$ is taken to be a reactive surface that modifies an internal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-12 Paul C. Bressloff

Reflected diffusions naturally arise in many problems from applications ranging from economics and mathematical biology to queueing theory. In this paper we consider a class of infinite time-horizon singular stochastic control problems for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-13 Giorgio Ferrari

We study diffusion-reaction processes on periodic square planar lattices and simple cubic (sc) lattices. Considered first is a single diffusing reactant undergoing an irreversible reaction upon first encounter with a stationary co-reactant…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-22 E. Abad , T. Abil , A. Santos , J. J. Kozak

Extensive simulations are performed of the diffusion-limited reaction A$+$B$\to 0$ in one dimension, with initially separated reagents. The reaction rate profile, and the probability distributions of the separation and midpoint of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Stephen Cornell

In many biological situations, a species arriving from a remote source diffuses in a domain confined between two parallel surfaces until it finds a binding partner. Since such a geometric shape falls in between two- and three-dimensional…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 Denis S. Grebenkov , Diego Krapf

This paper presents a novel approach for steering the state of a stochastic control-affine system to a desired target within a finite time horizon. Our method leverages the time-reversal of diffusion processes to construct the required…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Yuhang Mei , Amirhossein Taghvaei , Ali Pakniyat