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Target search by active agents in rugged energy landscapes has remained a challenge because standard enhanced sampling methods do not apply to irreversible dynamics. We overcome this non-equilibrium rare-event problem by developing an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-20 Luigi Zanovello , Michele Caraglio , Thomas Franosch , Pietro Faccioli

The discrete stochastic dynamics of a random walker in the presence of resetting and memory is analyzed. Resetting and memory effects may compete for certain parameter regime and lead to significant changes in the long time dynamics of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-15 Upendra Harbola

We consider a random walker whose motion is tethered around a focal point. We use two models that exhibit the same spatial dependence in the steady state but widely different dynamics. In one case, the walker is subject to a deterministic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-11 Luca Giuggioli , Shamik Gupta , Matt Chase

Efficiency of search for randomly distributed targets is a prominent problem in many branches of the sciences. For the stochastic process of L\'evy walks, a specific range of optimal efficiencies was suggested under variation of search…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-11 S. Mohsen J. Khadem , Sabine H. L. Klapp , Rainer Klages

We consider a self-attracting random walk in dimension d=1, in presence of a field of strength s, which biases the walker toward a target site. We focus on the dynamic case (true reinforced random walk), where memory effects are implemented…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-05 Elena Agliari , Raffaella Burioni , Guido Uguzzoni

Many physical phenomena are modeled as stochastic searchers looking for targets. In these models, the probability that a searcher finds a particular target, its so-called hitting probability, is often of considerable interest. In this work…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-18 Samantha Linn , Sean D. Lawley

Many biological, social, and communication systems can be modeled by ``searchers'' moving through a complex network. For example, intracellular cargo is transported on tubular networks, news and rumors spread through online social networks,…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-04 Sean D Lawley

We study the search kinetics of an immobile target by a concentration of randomly moving searchers. The object of the study is to optimize the probability of detection within the constraints of our model. The target is hidden on a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Oshanin , H. S. Wio , K. Lindenberg , S. F. Burlatsky

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

A random search of a partially absorbing target by a run-and-tumble particle in a confined one-dimensional space is investigated. We analytically obtain the mean searching time, which shows a non-monotonic behavior as a function of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-09 Euijin Jeon , Byeongguk Go , Yong Woon Kim

We study random walks with stochastic resetting to the initial position on arbitrary networks. We obtain the stationary probability distribution as well as the mean and global first passage times, which allow us to characterize the effect…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-03 Alejandro P. Riascos , Denis Boyer , Paul Herringer , José L. Mateos

The first-return time is the time that it takes a random walker to go back to the initial position for the first time. We study the first-return time when random walkers perform fractional kinetics, specifically fractional diffusion, that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-17 M. Dahlenburg G. Pagnini

In this paper, we present an overview of different types of random walk strategies with local and non-local transitions on undirected connected networks. We present a general approach to analyzing these strategies by defining the dynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-08 A. P. Riascos , José L. Mateos

Understanding the topological characteristics of complex networks and how they affect navigability is one of the most important goals in science today, as it plays a central role in various economic, biological, ecological and social…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-04-29 M. S. Chaves , T. G. Mattos , A. P. F. Atman

The run-and-tumble walk, consisting in randomly reoriented ballistic excursions, models phenomena ranging from gas kinetics to bacteria motility. We evaluate the mean time required for this walk to find a fixed target within a 2D or 3D…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-18 Jean-Francois Rupprecht , Olivier Bénichou , Raphael Voituriez

The random walk process underlies the description of a large number of real world phenomena. Here we provide the study of random walk processes in time varying networks in the regime of time-scale mixing; i.e. when the network connectivity…

Diffusion in a confining potential offers a minimal setting to understand the interplay between random motion and deterministic forces driving a particle towards a focal point or potential minimum. In continuous space and time, two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-12 Debraj Das , Luca Giuggioli

Motivated by the dynamics of resonant neurons we consider a differentiable, non-Markovian random process $x(t)$ and particularly the time after which it will reach a certain level $x_b$. The probability density of this first passage time is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Verechtchaguina , I. M. Sokolov , L. Schimansky-Geier

We study discrete-time random walks on arbitrary networks with first-passage resetting processes. To the end, a set of nodes are chosen as observable nodes, and the walker is reset instantaneously to a given resetting node whenever it hits…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-30 Feng Huang , Hanshuang Chen

The transition mechanism of jump processes between two different subsets in state space reveals important dynamical information of the processes and therefore has attracted considerable attention in the past years. In this paper, we study…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Max von Kleist , Christof Schütte , Wei Zhang