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Extensive empirical investigation has shown that a plethora of real networks synchronously exhibit scale-free and modular structure, and it is thus of great importance to uncover the effects of these two striking properties on various…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-01-05 Zhongzhi Zhang , Yihang Yang , Yuan Lin

We present a detailed study on the mean first-passage time of volatility processes. We analyze the theoretical expressions based on the most common stochastic volatility models along with empirical results extracted from daily data of major…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-12-02 Jaume Masoliver , Josep Perello

We consider the quantum first detection problem for a particle evolving on a graph under repeated projective measurements with fixed rate $1/\tau$. A general formula for the mean first detected transition time is obtained for a quantum walk…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-29 Q. Liu , R. Yin , K. Ziegler , E. Barkai

A schematic model of over-damped motion is presented which permits one to calculate the mean first passage time for nuclear fission. Its asymptotic value may exceed considerably the lifetime suggested by Kramers rate formula, which applies…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Hofmann , A. G. Magner

In this paper, we investigate random walks in a family of small-world trees having an exponential degree distribution. First, we address a trapping problem, that is, a particular case of random walks with an immobile trap located at the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-08-25 Zhongzhi Zhang , Xintong Li , Yuan Lin , Guanrong Chen

We derive an approximate but explicit formula for the Mean First Passage Time of a random walker between a source and a target node of a directed and weighted network. The formula does not require any matrix inversion, and it takes as only…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-10 Silvia Bartolucci , Fabio Caccioli , Francesco Caravelli , Pierpaolo Vivo

We provide an explicit formula for the global mean first-passage time (GMFPT) for random walks in a general graph with a perfect trap fixed at an arbitrary node, where GMFPT is the average of mean first-passage time to the trap over all…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-09-28 Yuan Lin , Alafate Julaiti , Zhongzhi Zhang

General upper bounds on fluctuations of trajectory observables were recently obtained. It turned out that the size of fluctuations of dynamical observable is limited from below and from above. For the moment generating function of general…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-13 V. V. Ryazanov

We introduce a non-equilibrium discrete-time random walk model on multiplex networks, in which at each time step the walker first undergoes a random jump between neighboring nodes in the same layer, and then tries to hop from one node to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-18 Feng Huang , Hanshuang Chen

We study the first-passage properties of a jump process with constant drift where jump amplitudes and inter-arrival times follow arbitrary light-tailed distributions with smooth densities. Using a mapping to an effective discrete-time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-25 Ivan N. Burenev

The determination of mean first-passage time (MFPT) for random walks in networks is a theoretical challenge, and is a topic of considerable recent interest within the physics community. In this paper, according to the known connections…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-01-30 Zhongzhi Zhang , Yi Qi , Shuigeng Zhou , Shuyang Gao , Jihong Guan

We develop novel numerical methods and perturbation approaches to determine the mean first passage time (MFPT) for a Brownian particle to be captured by either small stationary or mobile traps inside a bounded 2-D confining domain. Of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-20 Sarafa Iyaniwura , Tony Wong , Michael J. Ward , Colin B. Macdonald

For transport processes in geometrically restricted domains, the mean first-passage time (MFPT) admits a general scaling dependence on space parameters for diffusion, anomalous diffusion, and diffusion in disordered or fractal media. For…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-05 Eric Akkermans , Olivier Benichou , Gerald Dunne , Alexander Teplyaev , Raphael Voituriez

The generalized master equation or the equivalent continuous time random walk equations can be used to compute the macroscopic first passage time distribution (FPTD) of a complex stochastic system from short-term microscopic simulation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 David Shalloway , Anton Faradjian

Many biological processes involve one dimensional diffusion over a correlated inhomogeneous energy landscape with a correlation length $\xi_c$. Typical examples are specific protein target location on DNA, nucleosome repositioning, or DNA…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Michael Slutsky , Mehran Kardar , Leonid A. Mirny

We derive an approximate formula for the mean first-passage time (MFPT) to a small absorbing target of arbitrary shape inside an elongated domain of a slowly varying axisymmetric profile. For this purpose, the original Poisson equation in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-05-06 Denis S. Grebenkov , Alexei T. Skvortsov

We study the first passage statistics to adsorbing boundaries of a Brownian motion in bounded two-dimensional domains of different shapes and configurations of the adsorbing and reflecting boundaries. From extensive numerical analysis we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-30 Thiago G. Mattos , Carlos Mejía-Monasterio , Ralf Metzler , Gleb S. Oshanin

We consider diffusive motion of a particle performing a random walk with L\'evy distributed jump lengths and subject to resetting mechanism bringing the walker to an initial position at uniformly distributed times. In the limit of infinite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-25 Lukasz Kusmierz , Ewa Gudowska-Nowak

Photon transport through turbid media has typically been modeled through diffusion or telegraph equations. These models describe behavior of the average, or typical, photon with remarkable accuracy, however, we show here that they fail to…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-27 Aileen N. Carroll-Godfrey , Eric I. Corwin

Processes slow compared to atomic vibrations pose significant challenges in atomistic simulations, particularly for phenomena such as diffusive relaxations and phase transitions, where repeated crossings and the shear number of thermally…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-15 Hoje Chun , Hao Tang , Bin Xing , Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli , Ju Li