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We investigate the search of a target with a given spatial distribution in a finite one-dimensional domain. The searcher follows Brownian dynamics and is always reset to its initial position when reaching the boundaries of the domain…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-06 Gregorio García-Valladares , Antonio Prados , Alessandro Manacorda , Carlos A. Plata

Identifying optimal strategies for efficient spatial exploration is crucial, both for animals seeking food and for robotic search processes, where maximizing the covered area is a fundamental requirement. Here, we propose position resetting…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-02 Kristian Stølevik Olsen , Hartmut Löwen , Lorenzo Caprini

Target search problems are central to a wide range of fields, from biological foraging to the optimization algorithms. Recently, the ability to reset the search has been shown to significantly improve the searcher's efficiency. However, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-17 Gorka Muñoz-Gil , Hans J. Briegel , Michele Caraglio

We consider $N$ Brownian motions diffusing independently on a line, starting at $x_0>0$, in the presence of an absorbing target at the origin. The walkers undergo stochastic resetting under two protocols: (A) each walker resets…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-22 Marco Biroli , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

We analyze a one-dimensional intermittent random walk on an unbounded domain in the presence of stochastic resetting. In this process, the walker alternates between local intensive search, diffusion, and rapid ballistic relocations in which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-31 Rosa Flaquer-Galmés , Daniel Campos , Vicenç Méndez

We study the effect of a resetting point randomly distributed around the origin on the mean first passage time of a Brownian searcher moving in one dimension. We compare the search efficiency with that corresponding to reset to the origin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-03 Vicenç Mendez , Rosa Flaquer-Galmés , Daniel Campos

In this work, we study the dynamics of multiple random walkers on networks subject to a simultaneous resetting protocol, whereby all walkers are synchronously returned to their respective initial nodes. For this collective Markovian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-23 Cristian D. Suarez-Jimenez , Alejandro P. Riascos , Denis Boyer

We introduce a resetting Brownian bridge as a simple model to study search processes where the total search time $t_f$ is finite and the searcher returns to its starting point at $t_f$. This is simply a Brownian motion with a Poissonian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-23 Benjamin De Bruyne , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

Biological systems often consist of a small number of constituents and are therefore inherently noisy. To function effectively, these systems must employ mechanisms to constrain the accumulation of noise. Such mechanisms have been…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-04 Felix J. Meigel , Steffen Rulands

During a random search, resetting the searcher's position from time to time to the starting point often reduces the mean completion time of the process. Although many different resetting models have been studied over the past ten years,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-15 Gabriel Mercado-Vásquez , Denis Boyer , Satya N. Majumdar

Stochastic resetting has recently emerged as an efficient target-searching strategy in various physical and biological systems. The efficiency of this strategy depends on the type of environmental noise, whether it is thermal or telegraphic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-08 Priyo Shankar Pal , Jong-Min Park , Arnab Pal , Hyunggyu Park , Jae Sung Lee

Brownian diffusion subject to stochastic resetting to a fixed position has been widely studied for applications to random search processes. In an unbounded domain, the mean first-passage time at a target site can be minimized for a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-08 Pedro Julián-Salgado , Leonardo Dagdug , Denis Boyer

Guiding active motion is important for targeted delivery, sensing, and search tasks. Many active systems exhibit circular swimming, ubiquitous in chemical, physical, and biological systems, that biases motion and reduces transport…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-26 Amir Shee

We analyze predator-prey dynamics in one dimension in which a Brownian predator adopts a chasing strategy that consists in stochastically resetting its current position to locations previously visited by a diffusive prey. We study three…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-12-05 J. Quetzalcoatl Toledo-Marin , Denis Boyer , Francisco J. Sevilla

Classical first passage under resetting is a paradigm in the search process. Despite its multitude of applications across interdisciplinary sciences, experimental realizations of such resetting processes posit practical challenges in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-11 Arup Biswas , Anupam Kundu , Arnab Pal

Developing behavioral policies designed to efficiently solve target-search problems is a crucial issue both in nature and in the nanotechnology of the 21st century. Here, we characterize the target-search strategies of simple microswimmers…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-07-25 Harpreet Kaur , Thomas Franosch , Michele Caraglio

By periodically returning a search process to a known or random state, random resetting possesses the potential to unveil new trajectories, sidestep potential obstacles, and consequently enhance the efficiency of locating desired targets.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-31 Arnab Pal , Viktor Stojkoski , Trifce Sandev

Finding the best strategy to minimize the time needed to find a given target is a crucial task both in nature and in reaching decisive technological advances. By considering learning agents able to switch their dynamics between standard and…

The theory of stochastic resetting asserts that restarting a stochastic process can expedite its completion. In this paper, we study the escape process of a Brownian particle in an open Hamiltonian system that suffers noise-enhanced…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-23 Julia Cantisán , Alexandre R. Nieto , Jesús M. Seoane , Miguel A. F. Sanjuán

Inertia is intrinsic to many living and synthetic active systems, from animals and robotic agents to colloidal swimmers, and it strongly shapes transport. Many such systems employ intermittent restart protocols to regulate exploration.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-25 Manish Patel , Amir Shee
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