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We use a lattice model to study first-passage time distributions of target finding events through complex environments with elongated fibers distributed with different anisotropies and volume occupation fractions. For isotropic systems and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-10 David Gomez , Eial Teomy , Ayelet Lesman , Yair Shokef

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

We consider an anisotropic needle-like Brownian particle with nematic symmetry confined in a $2D$ domain. For this system, the coupling of translational and rotational diffusion makes the process ${\bf x} (t)$ of the positions of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-08 Nicolas Levernier , Olivier Bénichou , Raphaël Voituriez

The quantum first-detection problem concerns the statistics of the time at which a system, subject to repeated measurements, is observed in a prescribed target state for the first time. Unlike its classical counterpart, the measurement back…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-21 Giovanni Di Fresco , Aldo Coraggio , Alessandro Silva , Andrea Gambassi

We consider a continuous-time random walk model with finite-mean waiting-times and we study the mean first-passage time (MFPT) as estimated by an observer in a reference frame $\mathcal{S}$, that is co-moving with a target, and by an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-14 Marcus Dahlenburg , Gianni Pagnini

We propose an approach for estimating the probability that a given small target, among many, will be the first to be reached in a molecular dynamics simulation. Reaching small targets out of a vast number of possible configurations…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Jackson Loper , Guangyao Zhou , Stuart Geman

Motivated by the diffusion-reaction kinetics on interstellar dust grains, we study a first-passage problem of mortal random walkers in a confined two-dimensional geometry. We provide an exact expression for the encounter probability of two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-02 Ingo Lohmar , Joachim Krug

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

Recent works have explored the properties of L\'evy flights with resetting in one-dimensional domains and have reported the existence of phase transitions in the phase space of parameters which minimizes the Mean First Passage Time (MFPT)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-20 Daniel Campos , Vicenç Méndez

We use a first-passage time approach to study the statistics of the trapping times induced by persistent motion of active particles colliding with flat boundaries. The angular first-passage time distribution and mean first-passage time is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-02 Emily Qing Zang Moen , Kristian Stølevik Olsen , Jonas Rønning , Luiza Angheluta

We obtain non-Gaussian limit laws for one-dimensional random walk in a random environment assuming that the environment is a function of a stationary Markov process. This is an extension of the work of Kesten, M. Kozlov and Spitzer for…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Eddy Mayer-Wolf , Alexander Roitershtein , Ofer Zeitouni

Stochastic resetting -- the intermittent restart of random processes -- has profoundly reshaped first-passage theory, providing a mechanism to control and optimize completion times. While the influence of resetting on mean first-passage…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Juan Antonio Vega Coso

In this paper, we analyze the mean first passage time (MFPT) for a single Brownian particle to find a stochastically-gated target under the additional condition that the position of the particle is reset to a fixed position $\x_r$ at a rate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-28 Paul C Bressloff

Gated first-passage processes, where completion depends on both hitting a target and satisfying additional constraints, are prevalent across various fields. Despite their significance, analytical solutions to basic problems remain unknown,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-04 Yuval Scher , Aanjaneya Kumar , M. S. Santhanam , Shlomi Reuveni

We consider the problem of bounding mean first passage times for a class of continuous-time Markov chains that captures stochastic interactions between groups of identical agents. The quantitative analysis of such probabilistic population…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-07 Michael Backenköhler , Luca Bortolussi , Verena Wolf

This review examines intermittent target search strategies, which combine phases of slow motion, allowing the searcher to detect the target, and phases of fast motion during which targets cannot be detected. We first show that intermittent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 O. Bénichou , C. Loverdo , M. Moreau , R. Voituriez

We consider a mortal random walker on a family of hierarchical graphs in the presence of some trap sites. The configuration comprising the graph, the starting point of the walk, and the locations of the trap sites is taken to be exactly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-19 V. Balakrishnan , E. Abad , T. Abil , J. J. Kozak

Efficient search acts as a strong selective force in biological systems ranging from cellular populations to predator-prey systems. The search processes commonly involve finding a stationary or mobile target within a heterogeneously…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 Youness Azimzade , Alireza Mashaghi

Anomalous random walks having long-range jumps are a critical branch of dynamical processes on networks, which can model a number of search and transport processes. However, traditional measurements based on mean first passage time are not…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-10-11 Tongfeng Weng , Jie Zhang , Moein Khajehnejad , Michael Small , Rui Zheng , Pan Hui

In this work we consider a stochastic movement process with random resets to the origin followed by a random residence time there before the walker restarts its motion. First, we study the transport properties of the walker, we derive an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-22 Axel Masó-Puigdellosas , Daniel Campos , Vicenç Méndez