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The linear response of non-equilibrium systems with Markovian dynamics satisfies a generalized fluctuation-dissipation relation derived from time symmetry and antisymmetry properties of the fluctuations. The relation involves the sum of two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-01-07 Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano , Artyom Petrosyan , Sergio Ciliberto , Christian Maes

The explicit determinations of the mean first-passage time (MFPT) for trapping problem are limited to some simple structure, e.g., regular lattices and regular geometrical fractals, and determining MFPT for random walks on other media,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-03-05 Zhongzhi Zhang , Yi Qi , Shuigeng Zhou , Wenlei Xie , Jihong Guan

Networked dynamical systems, i.e., systems of dynamical units coupled via nontrivial interaction topologies, constitute models of broad classes of complex systems, ranging from gene regulatory and metabolic circuits in our cells to…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-03-12 Xiaozhu Zhang , Marc Timme

The first passage time (FPT) is a generic measure that quantifies when a random quantity reaches a specific state. We consider the FTP distribution in nonlinear stochastic biochemical networks, where obtaining exact solutions of the…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-05 Changqian Rao , David Waxman , Wei Lin , Zhuoyi Song

We investigate the fluctuations of the time elapsed until the electric charge transferred through a conductor reaches a given threshold value. For this purpose, we measure the distribution of the first-passage times for the net number of…

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

The problems of escape from metastable state in randomly flipping potential and of diffusion in fast fluctuating periodic potentials are considered. For the overdamped Brownian particle moving in a piecewise linear dichotomously fluctuating…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bernardo Spagnolo , Alexander A. Dubkov , Nikolay V. Agudov

The Continuous Time Random Walk (CTRW) formalism is used to model the non-Poisson relaxation of a system response to perturbation. Two mechanisms to perturb the system are analyzed: a first in which the perturbation, seen as a potential…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Gerardo Aquino , Paolo Grgolini , Bruce J. West

We study analytically and numerically the mean fastest first-passage time (fFPT) to an immobile target for an ensemble of $N$ independent finite-speed random searchers driven by dichotomous noise and described by the telegrapher's equation.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-18 Denis S. Grebenkov , Ralf Metzler , Gleb Oshanin

We propose a unifying theoretical framework for the analysis of first-passage time distributions in two important classes of stochastic processes in which the diffusivity of a particle evolves randomly in time. In the first class of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-05 D. S. Grebenkov

The first-passage time (FPT), defined as the time a random walker takes to reach a target point in a confining domain, is a key quantity in the theory of stochastic processes. Its importance comes from its crucial role to quantify the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-01 T. Guérin , N. Levernier , O. Bénichou , R. Voituriez

We study the statistics of first passage times (FPTs) of trajectory observables in both classical and quantum Markov processes. We consider specifically the FPTs of counting observables, that is, the times to reach a certain threshold of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-17 George Bakewell-Smith , Federico Girotti , Mădălin Guţă , Juan P. Garrahan

Relatively general techniques for computing mean first-passage time (MFPT) of random walks on networks with a specific property are very useful, since a universal method for calculating MFPT on general graphs is not available because of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-10-01 Yuan Lin , Bin Wu , Zhongzhi Zhang

Fractional Brownian motion is a generalised Gaussian diffusive process that is found to describe numerous stochastic phenomena in physics and biology. Here we introduce a multi-dimensional fractional Brownian motion (FBM) defined as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-06-14 Jae-Hyung Jeon , Aleksei V. Chechkin , Ralf Metzler

For systems close to equilibrium, the relaxation properties of measurable physical quantities are described by the linear response theory and the fluctuation-dissipation theorem (FDT). Accordingly, the response or the generalized…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-07-11 Bartlomiej Dybiec , Juan M. R. Parrondo , Ewa Gudowska-Nowak

The distribution of the first-passage time (FPT)$T_a$ for a Brownian particle with drift $\mu$ subject to hitting an absorber at a level $a>0$ is well-known and given by its density $\gamma(t) = \frac{a}{\sqrt{2 \pi t^3} } e^{-\frac{(a-\mu…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-04 Alain Mazzolo

We present a one-dimensional model for diffusion in a fluctuating lattice; that is a lattice which can be in two or more states. Transitions between the lattice states are induced by a combination of two processes: one periodic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jorge A. Revelli , Carlos. E. Budde , Horacio S. Wio

We consider the asymptotic behaviour of the fluctuation process for large stochastic systems of interacting particles driven by both idiosyncratic and common noise with an interaction kernel \(k \in L^2(\R^d) \cap L^\infty(\R^d)\). Our…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Paul Nikolaev

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 provide exact results for the mean and variance of first-passage times (FPTs) of making a directed revolution in the presence of a bias in heterogeneous quenched environments where the disorder is expressed by random traps on a ring with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-29 Takuma Akimoto , Keiji Saito