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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

We apply linear response theory to a general, inhomogeneous, stationary stellar system, with particular emphasis on dissipative processes analogous to Landau damping. Assuming only that the response is causal, we show that the irreversible…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert W. Nelson , Scott Tremaine

In biochemical reaction networks, the first passage time (FPT) of a reaction quantifies the time it takes for the reaction to first occur, from the initial state. While the mean FPT historically served as a summary metric, a far more…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-07 Changqian Rao , David Waxman , Wei Lin , Zhuoyi Song

When does a diffusing particle reach its target for the first time? This first-passage time (FPT) problem is central to the kinetics of molecular reactions in chemistry and molecular biology. Here we explain the behavior of smooth FPT…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-24 A. Godec , R. Metzler

We study the mean first passage time of a one-dimensional active fluctuating membrane that is stochastically returned to the same flat initial condition at a finite rate. We start with a Fokker Planck equation to describe the evolution of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-03 Tapas Singha

We study the time until first occurrence, the first-passage time, of rare density fluctuations in diffusive systems. We approach the problem using a model consisting of many independent random walkers on a lattice. The existence of spatial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-05-16 David P. Sanders , Hernán Larralde

Using a sensitive statistical test we determine whether or not one can detect the breakdown of linear response given observations of deterministic dynamical systems. A goodness-of-fit statistics is developed for a linear statistical model…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-10 Georg A. Gottwald , Caroline L. Wormell , Jeroen Wouters

We develop a comprehensive framework for characterizing fluctuations in quantum transport and nonequilibrium thermodynamics using two complementary approaches: full counting statistics and first-passage times. Focusing on open quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-12 Paul Menczel , Christian Flindt , Fredrik Brange , Franco Nori , Clemens Gneiting

Evaluating the completion time of a random algorithm or a running stochastic process is a valuable tip not only from a purely theoretical, but also pragmatic point of view. In the formal sense, this kind of a task is specified in terms of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-24 Przemyslaw Chelminiak

Understanding excitation and charge transfer in disordered media is a significant challenge in chemistry, biophysics and material science. We study two experimentally-relevant measures for carriers transfer in finite-size chains, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-18 Na'im Kalantar , Dvira Segal

We provide an exact formula for the mean first-passage time (MFPT) to a target at the origin for a single particle diffusing on a $d$-dimensional hypercubic {\em lattice} starting from a fixed initial position $\vec R_0$ and resetting to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-30 Alexander K. Hartmann , Satya N. Majumdar

We introduce a general framework, applicable to a broad class of random walks on networks, that quantifies the response of the mean first-passage time to a target node to a local perturbation of the network, both in the context of attacks…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-03-28 Vincent Tejedor , Olivier Bénichou , Raphael Voituriez , Michel Moreau

Many biophysical processes begin when the fastest searcher finds a target out of many random searchers, which is called an extreme or fastest first passage time (fFPT). In some models, (i) the fFPT vanishes logarithmically as the number of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-14 Sean D Lawley

Stochastic restart may drastically reduce the expected run time of a computer algorithm, expedite the completion of a complex search process, or increase the turnover rate of an enzymatic reaction. These diverse first-passage-time (FPT)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-30 Shlomi Reuveni

First-passage times provide invaluable insight into fundamental properties of stochastic processes. Yet, various forms of gating mask first-passage times and differentiate them from actual detection times. For instance, imperfect conditions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-27 Aanjaneya Kumar , Yuval Scher , Shlomi Reuveni , M. S. Santhanam

A linear response function (LRF) relates the mean-response of a nonlinear system to weak external forcings and vice versa. Even for simple models of the general circulation, such as the dry dynamical core, the LRF cannot be calculated from…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-05-25 Pedram Hassanzadeh , Zhiming Kuang

The first passage time (FPT) for random walks is a key indicator of how fast information diffuses in a given system. Despite the role of FPT as a fundamental feature in transport phenomena, its behavior, particularly in heterogeneous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Hwang , D. -S. Lee , B. Kahng

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

Fluctuations in stochastic systems are usually characterized by the full counting statistics, which analyzes the distribution of the number of events taking place in the fixed time interval. In an alternative approach, the distribution of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-24 Krzysztof Ptaszynski

In this paper we re-examine the traditional problem of connecting the internal fluctuations of a system to its response to external forcings and extend the classical theory in order to be able to encompass also nonlinear processes. With…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-04 Valerio Lucarini , Matteo Colangeli