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Under some weak conditions, the first-passage time of the Brownian motion to a continuous curved boundary is an almost surely finite stopping time. Its probability density function (pdf) is explicitly known only in few particular cases.…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-01-22 Samuel Herrmann , Etienne Tanré

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

We investigate the first-passage properties and extreme-value statistics of an overdamped Brownian particle confined by an external linear potential $V(x)=\mu |x-x_0|$, where $\mu>0$ is the strength of the potential and $x_0>0$ is the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-17 Feng Huang , Hanshuang Chen

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 mean first passage time (MFPT) to an absorbing target of a one-dimensional Brownian particle subject to an external potential $v(x)$ in a finite domain. We focus on the cases in which the external potential is confining, of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-14 Gabriel Mercado-Vásquez , Denis Boyer , Satya N. Majumdar

Intracellular transport in living cells is often spatially inhomogeneous with an accelerated effective diffusion close to the cell membrane and a ballistic motion away from the centrosome due to active transport along actin filaments and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-22 Matthieu Mangeat , Heiko Rieger

In many physical situations, there appears the problem of reaching a single target that is spatially distributed. Here we analyse how stochastic resetting, also spatially distributed, can be used to improve the search process when the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-22 Gregorio García-Valladares , Carlos A. Plata , Antonio Prados , Alessandro Manacorda

We study the non-equilibrium steady states and first passage properties of a Brownian particle with position $X$ subject to an external confining potential of the form $V(X)=\mu|X|$, and that is switched on and off stochastically. Applying…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-11 Gabriel Mercado-Vásquez , Denis Boyer , Satya N. Majumdar , Grégory Schehr

We investigate an intermittent stochastic process, in which the diffusive motion with time-dependent diffusion coefficient $D(t)\sim t^{\alpha-1}$, $\alpha>0$ (scaled Brownian motion), is stochastically reset to its initial position and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-24 Anna S. Bodrova , Aleksei V. Chechkin , Igor M. Sokolov

Diffusion with stochastic resetting has recently emerged as a powerful modeling tool with a myriad of potential applications. Here, we study local time in this model, covering situations of free and biased diffusion with, and without, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-06 Arnab Pal , Rakesh Chatterjee , Shlomi Reuveni , Anupam Kundu

The first-passage-time problem for a Brownian motion with alternating infinitesimal moments through a constant boundary is considered under the assumption that the time intervals between consecutive changes of these moments are described by…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-28 A. Di Crescenzo , E. Di Nardo , L. M. Ricciardi

We study the extreme value statistics of first-passage trajectories generating from a one-dimensional drifted Brownian motion subject to stochastic resetting to the starting point with a constant rate $r$. Each stochastic trajectory starts…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-18 Wusong Guo , Hao Yan , Hanshuang Chen

We consider the mean time to absorption by an absorbing target of a diffusive particle with the addition of a process whereby the particle is reset to its initial position with rate $r$. We consider several generalisations of the model of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-24 Martin R. Evans , Satya N. Majumdar

Transport of particles through channels is of paramount importance in physics, chemistry and surface science due to its broad real world applications. Much insights can be gained by observing the transition paths of a particle through a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-12 Siddharth Jain , Denis Boyer , Arnab Pal , Leonardo Dagdug

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

We analyze a one-dimensional intermittent random walk on an unbounded domain in the presence of stochastic resetting. In this process, the walker alternates between local intensive search, diffusion, and rapid ballistic relocations in which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-31 Rosa Flaquer-Galmés , Daniel Campos , Vicenç Méndez

We study the distribution of first passage time (FPT) in Levy type of anomalous diffusion. Using recently formulated fractional Fokker-Planck equation we obtain three results. (1) We derive an explicit expression for the FPT distribution in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Govindan Rangarajan , Mingzhou Ding

First passage in a stochastic process may be influenced by the presence of an external confining potential, as well as "stochastic resetting" in which the process is repeatedly reset back to its initial position. Here we study the interplay…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-10-06 Saeed Ahmad , Indrani Nayak , Ajay Bansal , Amitabha Nandi , Dibyendu Das

We explore the effects of stochastic resetting to random positions of a Brownian particle on first passage times and Shannon's entropy. We explore the different entropy regimes, namely, the \textit{externally-driven}, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-09 J. Quetzalcoatl Toledo-Marin , Denis Boyer

The first passage time (FPT) problem is studied for superstatistical models assuming that the mesoscopic system dynamics is described by a Fokker-Planck equation. We show that all moments of the random intensive parameter associated to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-30 Adrián A. Budini , Manuel O. Cáceres