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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

The escape of the randomly accelerated undamped particle from the finite interval under action of stochastic resetting is studied. The motion of such a particle is described by the full Langevin equation and the particle is characterized by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-31 Karol Capała , Bartłomiej Dybiec

The approach of shortcuts to adiabaticity enables the effective execution of adiabatic dynamics in quantum information processing with enhanced speed. Owing to the inherent trade-off between dynamical speed and the cost associated with the…

In this paper we consider the one-dimensional dynamical evolution of a particle traveling at constant speed and performing, at a given rate, random reversals of the velocity direction. The particle is subject to stochastic resetting,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-25 Mattia Radice

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

In this paper, we propose a unified stochastic optimal control framework that integrates time-optimal control problems with classical stochastic optimal control formulations. Unlike conventional deterministic time-optimal control models,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Shuzhen Yang

We consider partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) with a set of target states and positive integer costs associated with every transition. The traditional optimization objective (stochastic shortest path) asks to minimize…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-05-12 Tomáš Brázdil , Krishnendu Chatterjee , Martin Chmelík , Anchit Gupta , Petr Novotný

We consider motion of an overdamped Brownian particle subject to stochastic resetting in one dimension. In contrast to the usual setting where the particle is instantaneously reset to a preferred location (say, the origin), here we consider…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-26 Deepak Gupta , Arnab Pal , Anupam Kundu

``When in a difficult situation, it is sometimes better to give up and start all over again''. While this empirical truth has been regularly observed in a wide range of circumstances, quantifying the effectiveness of such a heuristic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-20 Benjamin De Bruyne , Francesco Mori

We investigate the role of stochastic resetting in non-Markovian systems, where memory effects arise due to slow relaxation, rugged energy landscapes, disordered environments, and molecular crowding. Using the celebrated continuous-time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-13 Suvam Pal , Rahul Das , Arnab Pal

Inertia is intrinsic to many living and synthetic active systems, from animals and robotic agents to colloidal swimmers, and it strongly shapes transport. Many such systems employ intermittent restart protocols to regulate exploration.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-25 Manish Patel , Amir Shee

We analyze the control of the motion of a charged particle by means of an external electric field. The system is constrained to move along a given direction. The goal of the control is to change the speed of the particle in a fixed time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-22 V. Martikyan , D. Guéry-Odelin , D. Sugny

We study the first-passage-time (FPT) properties of an active Brownian particle under stochastic resetting to its initial configuration, comprising its position and orientation, to reach an absorbing wall in two dimensions. Coupling a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-04 Yanis Baouche , Christina Kurzthaler

Shortcut to isothermality is a driving strategy to steer the system to its equilibrium states within finite time, and enables evaluating the impact of a control promptly. Finding optimal scheme to minimize the energy cost is of critical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-14 Geng Li , Jin-Fu Chen , C. P. Sun , Hui Dong

We introduce a resetting Brownian bridge as a simple model to study search processes where the total search time $t_f$ is finite and the searcher returns to its starting point at $t_f$. This is simply a Brownian motion with a Poissonian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-23 Benjamin De Bruyne , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

Brownian diffusion subject to stochastic resetting to a fixed position has been widely studied for applications to random search processes. In an unbounded domain, the mean first-passage time at a target site can be minimized for a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-08 Pedro Julián-Salgado , Leonardo Dagdug , Denis Boyer

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

Quantifying energy flows at nanometer scales promises to guide future research in a variety of disciplines, from microscopic control and manipulation, to autonomously operating molecular machines. A general understanding of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-26 Steven J. Large , Raphaël Chetrite , David A. Sivak

We investigate the search of a target with a given spatial distribution in a finite one-dimensional domain. The searcher follows Brownian dynamics and is always reset to its initial position when reaching the boundaries of the domain…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-06 Gregorio García-Valladares , Antonio Prados , Alessandro Manacorda , Carlos A. Plata

Stochastic resetting has recently emerged as an efficient target-searching strategy in various physical and biological systems. The efficiency of this strategy depends on the type of environmental noise, whether it is thermal or telegraphic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-08 Priyo Shankar Pal , Jong-Min Park , Arnab Pal , Hyunggyu Park , Jae Sung Lee