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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

Resetting or restart, when applied to a stochastic process, usually brings its dynamics to a time-independent stationary state. In turn, the optimal resetting rate makes the mean time to reach a target to be the shortest one. These and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-31 Przemyslaw Chelminiak

Stochastic resetting, the procedure of stopping and re-initializing random processes, has recently emerged as a powerful tool for accelerating processes ranging from queuing systems to molecular simulations. However, its usefulness is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-18 Tommer D. Keidar , Ofir Blumer , Barak Hirshberg , Shlomi Reuveni

Cover times quantify the speed of exhaustive search. In this work, we compute exactly the mean cover time associated with a one-dimensional Brownian search under exponentially distributed resetting. We also approximate the moments of cover…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Samantha Linn , Sean D Lawley

A random search is a stochastic process representing the random motion of a particle (denoted as the searcher) that is terminated when it reaches (detects) a target particle or area the first time. In intermittent search the random motion…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-23 Karsten Schwarz , Yannick Schröder , Heiko Rieger

Stochastic resetting, a diffusive process whose amplitude is "reset" to the origin at random times, is a vividly studied strategy to optimize encounter dynamics, e.g., in chemical reactions. We here generalize the resetting step by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-26 M. Dahlenburg , A. V. Chechkin , R. Schumer , R. Metzler

Stochastic resetting has attracted significant attention in recent years due to its wide-ranging applications across physics, biology, and search processes. In most existing studies, however, resetting events are governed by an external…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-31 Arup Biswas , Satya N Majumdar , Arnab Pal

The cost of stochastic resetting is considered within the context of a discrete random walk model. In addition to standard stochastic resetting, for which a reset occurs with a certain probability after \emph{each} step, we introduce a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-30 Deepak Gupta , Bart Cleuren

We investigate a diffusion process in heterogeneous media where particles stochastically reset to their initial positions at a constant rate. The heterogeneous media is modeled using a spatial-dependent diffusion coefficient with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-17 M. K. Lenzi , E. K. Lenzi , L. M. S. Guilherme , L. R. Evangelista , H. V. Ribeiro

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

We consider one dimensional diffusive search strategies subjected to external potentials. The location of a single target is drawn from a given probability density function (PDF) $f_G(x)$ and is fixed for each stochastic realization of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-07 Łukasz Kuśmierz , Martin Bier , Ewa Gudowska-Nowak

Classical first passage under resetting is a paradigm in the search process. Despite its multitude of applications across interdisciplinary sciences, experimental realizations of such resetting processes posit practical challenges in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-11 Arup Biswas , Anupam Kundu , Arnab Pal

In this Topical Review we consider stochastic processes under resetting, which have attracted a lot of attention in recent years. We begin with the simple example of a diffusive particle whose position is reset randomly in time with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-24 Martin R. Evans , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

In this paper we consider a random search process with stochastic resetting and a partially accessible target $\calU$. That is, when the searcher finds the target by attaching to its surface $\partial \calU$ it does not have immediate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-07 Paul C. Bressloff

Many physical processes depend on the time it takes a diffusing particle to find a target. Though this classical quantity is now well-understood in various scenarios, little is known if the diffusivity depends on the location of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-23 Hwai-Ray Tung , Sean D Lawley

Stochastic resetting, where a dynamical process is intermittently returned to a fixed reference state, has emerged as a powerful mechanism for optimizing first-passage properties. Existing theory largely treats static, non-learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Jello Zhou , Vudtiwat Ngampruetikorn , David J. Schwab

In this paper we use asymptotic analysis to determine the steady-state mean number of resources in each of $N$ small interior targets within a three-dimensional bounded domain. The accumulation of resources is based on multiple rounds of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-26 Paul C. Bressloff

The effects of a stochastic reset, to its initial configuration, is studied in the exactly solvable one-dimensional coagulation-diffusion process. A finite resetting rate leads to a modified non-equilibrium stationary state. If in addition…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-02-04 Xavier Durang , Malte Henkel , Hyunggyu Park

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

We study the diffusion process in the presence of stochastic resetting inside a two-dimensional wedge of top angle $\alpha$, bounded by two infinite absorbing edges. In the absence of resetting, the second moment of the first-passage time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-01 Fazil Najeeb , Arnab Pal , V. V. Prasad