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The first passage statistics of a continuous time random walker with Poisson distributed jumps on one and two dimensional infinite lattices is investigated. An exact expression for the probability of first return to the origin in one…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-13 Stephy Jose

We present a novel computational method of first-passage times between a starting site and a target site of regular bounded lattices. We derive accurate expressions for all the moments of this first-passage time, validated by numerical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 S Condamin , O. Benichou , M. Moreau

Advection and dispersion in highly heterogeneous environments involving interfacial discontinuities in the corresponding drift and dispersion rates are described through disparate examples from the physical and biological sciences. A…

We study the local time distribution of a Brownian particle diffusing along the links on a graph. In particular, we derive an analytic expression of its Laplace transform in terms of the Green's function on the graph. We show that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alain Comtet , Jean Desbois , Satya N. Majumdar

We investigate the first passage statistics of active continuous time random walks with Poissonian waiting time distribution on a one dimensional infinite lattice and a two dimensional infinite square lattice. We study the small and large…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-27 Stephy Jose

An open problem of interest, first infused into the applied probability community in the work of Bingham and Doney in 1988, (see \cite{Bingham}) is stated as follows: find the distribution of the quadrant occupation time of planar Brownian…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Philip Ernst , Larry Shepp

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

We consider a 1-dimensional Brownian motion whose diffusion coefficient varies when it crosses the origin. We study the long time behavior and we establish different regimes, depending on the variations of the diffusion coefficient:…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-28 Nicolas Meunier , Clément Mouhot , Raphaël Roux

The time which a diffusing particle spends in a certain region of space is known as the occupation time, or the residence time. Recently the joint occupation time statistics of an ensemble of non-interacting particles was addressed using…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-07 Tal Agranov , P. L. Krapivsky , Baruch Meerson

Using a new approach, for spectrally negative L\'evy processes we find joint Laplace transforms involving the last exit time (from a semi-infinite interval), the value of the process at the last exit time and the associated occupation time,…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-10-05 Yingqiu Lia , Chuancun Yin , Xiaowen Zhou

Functionals of Brownian/non-Brownian motions have diverse applications and attracted a lot of interest of scientists. This paper focuses on deriving the forward and backward fractional Feynman-Kac equations describing the distribution of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-04-06 Xiaochao Wu , Weihua Deng , Eli Barkai

We investigate the ergodic properties of Brownian motion in heterogeneous media through the statistics of occupation times. Using the Feynman-Kac formalism, we derive analytical expressions for the distributions, moments, and ergodicity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-17 Vicenç Méndez , Rosa Flaquer-Galmés

Molecular spiders are synthetic catalytic DNA-based nanoscale walkers. We study the mean first passage time for abstract models of spiders moving on a finite two-dimensional lattice with various boundary conditions, and compare it with the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2014-12-02 Oleg Semenov , David Mohr , Darko Stefanovic

We consider an active Brownian particle in a $d$-dimensional harmonic trap, in the presence of translational diffusion. While the Fokker-Planck equation can not in general be solved to obtain a closed form solution of the joint distribution…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-23 Debasish Chaudhuri , Abhishek Dhar

We investigate active lattice walks: biased continuous time random walks which perform orientational diffusion between lattice directions in one and two spatial dimensions. We study the occupation probability of an arbitrary site on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-27 Stephy Jose , Dipanjan Mandal , Mustansir Barma , Kabir Ramola

Starting with a Brownian motion, we define and study a novel diffusion process by combining stickiness and oscillation properties. The associated stochastic differential equation, resolvent and semigroup are provided. Also the trivariate…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-02-08 Wajdi Touhami

We consider a random walk in confined geometry, starting from a site and eventually reaching a target site. We calculate analytically the distribution of the occupation time on a third site, before reaching the target site. The obtained…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Condamin , V. Tejedor , O. Benichou

We derive the probability density function of the positive occupation time of one-dimensional Brownian motion with two-valued drift. Long time asymptotics of the density are also computed. We use the result to describe the transitional…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-06-06 David J. W. Simpson , Rachel Kuske

A Langevin process diffusing in a periodic potential landscape has a time dependent diffusion constant which means that its average mean squared displacement (MSD) only becomes linear at late times. The long time, or effective diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 David S. Dean , Gleb Oshanin

We introduce an extension of the frog model to Euclidean space and prove properties for the spread of active particles. Fix $r>0$ and place a particle at each point $x$ of a unit intensity Poisson point process $\mathcal P \subseteq \mathbb…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-01-31 Erin Beckman , Emily Dinan , Rick Durrett , Ran Huo , Matthew Junge