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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

We used transition path theory (TPT) to infer "reactive" pathways of floating marine debris trajectories. The TPT analysis was applied on a pollution-aware time-homogeneous Markov chain model constructed from trajectories produced by…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 P. Miron , F. J. Beron-Vera , L. Helfmann , P. Koltai

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

Single-particle tracking (SPT) has become a popular tool to study the intracellular transport of molecules in living cells. Inferring the character of their dynamics is important, because it determines the organization and functions of the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-09-09 Joanna Janczura , Patrycja Kowalek , Hanna Loch-Olszewska , Janusz Szwabiński , Aleksander Weron

An encounter-based approach consists in using the boundary local time as a proxy for the number of encounters between a diffusing particle and a target to implement various surface reaction mechanisms on that target. In this paper, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-03 Ziyad Benkhadaj , Denis S. Grebenkov

We study diffusion-controlled processes in nonequilibrium steady states, where standard rate theory assumptions break down. Using transition path theory, we generalize the relations between reactive probability fluxes and measures of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Seokjin Moon , David T. Limmer

The dominant reaction pathway (DRP) is a rigorous framework to microscopically compute the most probable trajectories, in non-equilibrium transitions. In the low-temperature regime, such dominant pathways encode the information about the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 G. Mazzola , S. a Beccara , P. Faccioli , H. Orland

Stochastic resetting has emerged as a useful strategy to reduce the completion time for a broad class of first passage processes. In the canonical setup, one intermittently resets a given system to its initial configuration only to start…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-28 Arup Biswas , Ashutosh Dubey , Anupam Kundu , Arnab Pal

We extend the theoretical framework used to study search processes with stochastic resetting to the case of partially absorbing targets. Instead of an absorption event occurring when the search particle reaches the boundary of a target, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-20 Ryan D. Schumm , Paul C. Bressloff

The transport properties of discrete-time random walks on ring networks with deterministic shortcuts are investigated through analytical and numerical methods. The network consists of a periodic chain where each node is connected to its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-30 Oscar Ivan Torres Mena , Francisco J Sevilla

One of the characteristic features of a stochastic process under resetting is that the probability density converges to a nonequilibrium stationary state (NESS). In addition, the approach to the stationary state exhibits a dynamical phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-01 Paul C Bressloff

Diffusion planners have shown promise in handling long-horizon and sparse-reward tasks due to the non-autoregressive plan generation. However, their inherent stochastic risk of generating infeasible trajectories presents significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Lang Feng , Pengjie Gu , Bo An , Gang Pan

In many biological systems, the movement of individual agents is commonly characterized as having multiple qualitatively distinct behaviors that arise from various biophysical states. This is true for vesicles in intracellular transport,…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2022-07-25 Maria-Veronica Ciocanel , John Fricks , Peter R. Kramer , Scott A. McKinley

Transition interface sampling (TIS) and replica exchange TIS (RETIS) are powerful methods for computing rates of rare events inaccessible to straightforward molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Path reweighting extends their output,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Titus S. van Erp , Daniel T. Zhang , Elias Wils , Sina Safaei , An Ghysels

Inspired by many examples in nature, stochastic resetting of random processes has been studied extensively in the past decade. In particular, various models of stochastic particle motion were considered where upon resetting the particle is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-23 Ofir Tal-Friedman , Yael Roichman , Shlomi Reuveni

The first passage time (FPT) is a generic measure that quantifies when a random quantity reaches a specific state. We consider the FTP distribution in nonlinear stochastic biochemical networks, where obtaining exact solutions of the…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-05 Changqian Rao , David Waxman , Wei Lin , Zhuoyi Song

The transport equation of active motion is generalised to consider time-fractional dynamics for describing the anomalous diffusion of self-propelled particles observed in many different systems. In the present study, we consider an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-27 Francisco J. Sevilla , Guillermo Chacón-Acosta , Trifce Sandev

Sampling from diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) can be viewed as a piecewise distribution transformation, which generally requires hundreds or thousands of steps of the inverse diffusion trajectory to get a high-quality image. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Zezeng Li , ShengHao Li , Zhanpeng Wang , Na Lei , Zhongxuan Luo , Xianfeng Gu

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

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