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We study the effect of stochastic resetting on a run and tumble particle (RTP) in two spatial dimensions. We consider a resetting protocol which affects both the position and orientation of the RTP: with a constant rate the particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-30 Ion Santra , Urna Basu , Sanjib Sabhapandit

Diffusion and first passage in the presence of stochastic resetting and potential bias have been of recent interest. We study a few models, systematically progressing in their complexity, to understand the usefulness of resetting. In the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-04 Saeed Ahmad , Krishna Rijal , Dibyendu Das

Diffusion with an incorporated resetting mechanism provides a reference framework for modeling a wide range of natural phenomena. Within this framework, the optimal resetting rate is a key quantity that arises from the optimization of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-12 Pedro Julián-Salgado , Pavel Castro-Villarreal , Leonardo Dagdug , Denis Boyer

We study the first-passage time to the origin of a mortal Brownian particle, with mortality rate $ \mu $, diffusing in one dimension. The particle starts its motion from $ x>0 $ and it is subject to stochastic resetting with constant rate $…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-01 Mattia Radice

The theory of stochastic resetting asserts that restarting a stochastic process can expedite its completion. In this paper, we study the escape process of a Brownian particle in an open Hamiltonian system that suffers noise-enhanced…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-23 Julia Cantisán , Alexandre R. Nieto , Jesús M. Seoane , Miguel A. F. Sanjuán

Recently noticed ability of restart to reduce the expected completion time of first-passage processes allows appealing opportunities for performance improvement in a variety of settings. However, complex stochastic processes often exhibit…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-27 Sergey Belan

We study the dynamics of overdamped Brownian particles diffusing in conservative force fields and undergoing stochastic resetting to a given location with a generic space-dependent rate of resetting. We present a systematic approach…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-15 Édgar Roldán , Shamik Gupta

Stochastic resetting, the procedure of stopping and re-initializing random processes, has recently emerged as a powerful tool for accelerating processes ranging from queuing systems to molecular simulations. However, its usefulness is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-18 Tommer D. Keidar , Ofir Blumer , Barak Hirshberg , Shlomi Reuveni

First passage under restart has recently emerged as a conceptual framework to study various stochastic processes under restart mechanism. Emanating from the canonical diffusion problem by Evans and Majumdar, restart has been shown to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-01 Ofek Lauber Bonomo , Arnab Pal

The first hitting times of a stochastic process, i.e., the first time a process reaches a particular level, are of significant interest across various scientific disciplines, including biology, chemistry, and economics. We modify the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-24 Bartosz Zbik , Bartłomiej Dybiec , Karol Capała , Zbigniew Palmowski , Igor M. Sokolov

We investigate classic diffusion with the added feature that a diffusing particle is reset to its starting point each time the particle reaches a specified threshold. In an infinite domain, this process is non-stationary and its probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-07 B. De Bruyne , J. Randon-Furling , S. Redner

This thesis develops exact analytical tools to study strongly correlated stochastic systems, with a focus on extreme value statistics, gap statistics, and full counting statistics in multi-particle processes. A central contribution is the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-19 Marco Biroli

We present a method for enhanced sampling of molecular dynamics simulations using stochastic resetting. Various phenomena, ranging from crystal nucleation to protein folding, occur on timescales that are unreachable in standard simulations.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-02-09 Ofir Blumer , Shlomi Reuveni , Barak Hirshberg

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

Restart -- interrupting a stochastic process followed by a new start -- is known to improve the mean time to its completion, and the general conditions under which such an improvement is achieved are now well understood. Here, we explore…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-11 Sergey Belan

How long does a trajectory take to reach a stable equilibrium point in the basin of attraction of a dynamical system? This is a question of quite general interest, and has stimulated a lot of activities in dynamical and stochastic systems…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-02-03 Arnob Ray , Arnab Pal , Dibakar Ghosh , Syamal K. Dana , Chittaranjan Hens

Random trajectories of single particles in living cells contain information about the interaction between particles, as well as, with the cellular environment. However, precise consideration of the underlying stochastic properties, beyond…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 Aleksander A. Stanislavsky , Aleksander Weron

The first passage time for a single diffusing particle has been studied extensively, but the first passage time of a system of many diffusing particles, as is often the case in physical systems, has received little attention until recently.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-22 Jacob B. Hass , Ivan Corwin , Eric I. Corwin

Metadynamics is a powerful method to accelerate molecular dynamics simulations, but its efficiency critically depends on the identification of collective variables that capture the slow modes of the process. Unfortunately, collective…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-07-17 Ofir Blumer , Shlomi Reuveni , Barak Hirshberg

The first passage is a generic concept for quantifying when a random quantity such as the position of a diffusing molecule or the value of a stock crosses a preset threshold (target) for the first time. The last decade saw an enlightening…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-26 Aljaz Godec , Ralf Metzler