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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

Diffusion with stochastic resetting, instantaneous returns of a diffusing particle to a reference point, creates a stationary probability distribution. The paradigm is extended here to a doubly stochastic protocol in which the resetting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-01 Maxence Arutkin , Shlomi Reuveni

Quantifying how spatial disorder affects the movement of a diffusing particle or agent is fundamental to target search studies. When diffusion occurs on a network, that is on a highly disordered environment, we lack the mathematical tools…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-15 Daniel Marris , Chittaranjan Hens , Subrata Ghosh , Luca Giuggioli

Molecular motion through pores plays a crucial role in various natural and industrial processes. One of the most fascinating features of biological channel-facilitated transport is a stochastic gating process, when the channels dynamically…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-12-20 Aram Davtyan , Anatoly B. Kolomeisky

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

Correct prediction of particle transport by surface waves is crucial in many practical applications such as search and rescue or salvage operations and pollution tracking and clean-up efforts. Recent results have indicated transport by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-26 D. Eeltink , R. Calvert , J. E. Swagemakers , Qian Xiao , T. S. van den Bremer

The problems of escape from metastable state in randomly flipping potential and of diffusion in fast fluctuating periodic potentials are considered. For the overdamped Brownian particle moving in a piecewise linear dichotomously fluctuating…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bernardo Spagnolo , Alexander A. Dubkov , Nikolay V. Agudov

We present a study on the dynamics of a system consisting of a pair of hardcore particles diffusing with different rates. We solved the drift-diffusion equation for this model in the case when one particle, labeled F, drifts and diffuses…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-12-14 S. L. Narasimhan , A. Baumgaertner

The encounter of diffusing entities underlies a wide range of natural phenomena. The dynamics of these first-passage dynamics are strongly influenced by confining geometries. Confinement modifies microscopic diffusion through conservative…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-22 Guirec de Tournemire , Nicolas Fares , Yacine Amarouchene , Thomas Salez

We investigate the average velocity of Brownian particles driven by a constant external force when constrained to move in two-dimensional, weakly-corrugated channels. We consider both the geometric confinement of the particles between solid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-04 Xinli Wang , German Drazer

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

Using random walk simulations we explore diffusive transport through monodisperse sphere packings over a range of packing fractions, $\phi$, in the vicinity of the jamming transition at $\phi_{c}$. Various diffusion properties are computed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-02 Dan S. Bolintineanu , Gary S. Grest , Jeremy B. Lechman , Leonardo E. Silbert

The transport of independent active Brownian particles within a two-dimensional narrow channel, modeled as an open-wedge, is studied both numerically and theoretically. We show that the active force tends to localize the particles near the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-01 Lorenzo Caprini , Fabio Cecconi , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

Biased Brownian motion of point-size particles in a three-dimensional tube with smoothly varying cross-section is investigated. In the fashion of our recent work [Martens et al., PRE 83,051135] we employ an asymptotic analysis to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-30 Steffen Martens , Gerhard Schmid , Lutz Schimansky-Geier , Peter Hänggi

The purpose of this paper is to provide new formulas for the effective diffusion coefficient of a generalized Fick-Jacobs equation for narrow 3-dimensional channels. The generalized Fick-Jacobs equation is obtained by projecting the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-12-01 Carlos Valero Valdes , Rafael Herrera Guzman

We analyze the dynamics of Brownian ratchets in a confined environment. The motion of the particles is described by a Fick-Jakobs kinetic equation in which the presence of boundaries is modeled by means of an entropic potential. The cases…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-23 Paolo Malgaretti , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , J. Miguel Rubi

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

We consider the dynamics of lattice random walks with resetting. The walker moving randomly on a lattice of arbitrary dimensions resets at every time step to a given site with a constant probability $r$. We construct a discrete renewal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-01 Debraj Das , Luca Giuggioli

The effects of Poissonian resetting at a constant rate $r$ on the reaction time between a Brownian particle and a stochastically gated target are studied. The target switches between a reactive state and a non-reactive one. We calculate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-11 Gabriel Mercado-Vásquez , Denis Boyer

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