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We consider the mean first passage time (MFPT) for a diffusive particle in a potential landscape with the extra condition that the particle is reset to its original position with some rate r. We study non-smooth and non-convex potentials…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-16 Johannes Aspman , Daniel Mastropietro , Jakub Marecek

The strategy of stochastic resetting is known to expedite the first passage to a target, in diffusive systems. Consequently, the mean first passage time is minimized at an optimal resetting parameter. With Poisson resetting, vanishing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-08 Saeed Ahmad , Dibyendu Das

Restarting a stochastic search process can accelerate its completion by providing an opportunity to take a more favorable path with each reset. This strategy, known as stochastic resetting, is well studied in random processes. Here, we…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-09 Julia Cantisán , Alexandre R. Nieto , Jesús M. Seoane

Recently noticed ability of restart to reduce the expected completion time of first-passage processes allows appealing opportunities for performance improvement in a variety of settings. However, complex stochastic processes often exhibit…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-27 Sergey Belan

Diffusion and first passage in the presence of stochastic resetting and potential bias have been of recent interest. We study a few models, systematically progressing in their complexity, to understand the usefulness of resetting. In the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-04 Saeed Ahmad , Krishna Rijal , Dibyendu Das

Stochastic systems characterised by a random driving in a form of the general stable noise are considered. The particle experiences long rests due to the traps the density of which is position-dependent and obeys a power-law form attributed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-06 Tomasz Srokowski

``When in a difficult situation, it is sometimes better to give up and start all over again''. While this empirical truth has been regularly observed in a wide range of circumstances, quantifying the effectiveness of such a heuristic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-20 Benjamin De Bruyne , Francesco Mori

Stochastic resetting is a driving mechanism that is known to minimize the first passage time to reach a target, at the cost of energy expenditure. The choice of the physical implementation of each resetting event determines the tradeoff…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-29 Rémi Goerlich , Kristian Stølevik Olsen , Hartmut Löwen , Yael Roichman

Metadynamics is a powerful method to accelerate molecular dynamics simulations, but its efficiency critically depends on the identification of collective variables that capture the slow modes of the process. Unfortunately, collective…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-07-17 Ofir Blumer , Shlomi Reuveni , Barak Hirshberg

Resetting a stochastic process has been shown to expedite the completion time of some complex tasks, such as finding a target for the first time. Here we consider the cost of resetting by associating to each reset a cost, which is a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-13 John C. Sunil , Richard A. Blythe , Martin R. Evans , Satya N. Majumdar

We consider a walker moving in a one-dimensional interval with absorbing boundaries under the effect of Markovian resettings to the initial position. The walker's motion follows a random walk characterized by a general waiting time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-25 Vicenç Méndez , Axel Masó-Puigdellosas , Daniel Campos

In this paper we consider the one-dimensional dynamical evolution of a particle traveling at constant speed and performing, at a given rate, random reversals of the velocity direction. The particle is subject to stochastic resetting,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-25 Mattia Radice

Will the strategy of resetting} help a stochastic process to reach its target efficiently, with its environment continually toggling between a strongly favourable and an unfavourable (or weakly favourable) state? A diffusive run-and-tumble…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-04 Hillol kumar Barman , Amitabha Nandi , Dibyendu Das

First passage of stochastic processes under resetting has recently been an active research topic in the field of statistical physics. However, most of previous studies mainly focused on the systems with continuous time and space. In this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-30 Hanshuang Chen , Guofeng Li , Feng Huang

In the past few years, stochastic resetting has become a subject of immense interest. Most of the theoretical studies so far focused on instantaneous resetting which is, however, a major impediment to practical realization or experimental…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-14 Deepak Gupta , Carlos A Plata , Anupam Kundu , Arnab Pal

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

Resetting, in which a system is regularly returned to a given state after a fixed or random duration, has become a useful strategy to optimize the search performance of a system. While earlier theoretical frameworks focused on instantaneous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-14 Prashant Singh

In the previous chapters, we explored the effects of resetting on networks considering one and two nodes. In this chapter, we will describe a generalization of random walks with resetting to an arbitrary number of nodes $\mathcal{M}$. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-26 Fernanda Hernández González

We explore the effect of stochastic resetting on the first-passage properties of space-dependent diffusion in presence of a constant bias. In our analytically tractable model system, a particle diffusing in a linear potential…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-23 Somrita Ray

Resetting has been shown to reduce the completion time for a stochastic process, such as the first passage time for a diffusive searcher to find a target. The time between two consecutive resetting events is drawn from a waiting time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-23 Martin R. Evans , Somrita Ray