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The mean first passage time (MFPT) is a key metric for understanding transport, search, and escape processes in stochastic systems. While well characterized for passive Brownian particles, its behavior in active systems-such as active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-22 Sarafa A. Iyaniwura , Zhiwei Peng

Active Brownian particles (ABPs) are a model for nonequilibrium systems in which the constituent particles are self-propelled in addition to their Brownian motion. Compared to the well-studied mean first passage time (MFPT) of passive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Sarafa Adewale Iyaniwura , Zhiwei Peng

We develop a closed-form analytical theory for the transport of a chiral active Brownian particle (cABP) in three dimensions, moving through a fluctuating local density field that coarse-grains steric and dynamical interactions in a dense…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-25 Jayam Joshi , Shradha Mishra

The narrow escape problem is a first-passage problem concerned with randomly moving particles in a physical domain, being trapped by absorbing surface traps (windows), such that the measure of traps is small compared to the domain size. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Vaibhava Srivastava , Alexei Cheviakov

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

The stochastic motion of particles in living cells is often spatially inhomogeneous with a higher effective diffusivity in a region close to the cell boundary due to active transport along actin filaments. As a first step to understand the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-25 Matthieu Mangeat , Heiko Rieger

We numerically investigate the mean exit time of an inertial active Brownian particle from a circular cavity with single or multiple exit windows. Our simulation results witness distinct escape mechanisms depending upon the relative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-18 Tanwi Debnath , Pinaki Chaudhury , Taritra Mukherjee , Debasish Mondal , Pulak K. Ghosh

Active matter concerns the self-organization of energy consuming elements such as motile bacteria or self-propelled colloids. A canonical example is an active Brownian particle (ABP) that moves at constant speed while its direction of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-21 Paul C Bressloff

Active particles exhibit self-propulsion, leading to transport behavior that differs fundamentally from passive Brownian motion. In confined or structured domains, activity strongly influence escape probabilities and first-passage behavior.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-27 Sarafa A. Iyaniwura , Zhiwei Peng

The mean first passage time (MFPT) for a Brownian particle to reach a small target in cellular microdomains is a key parameter for chemical activation. Although asymptotic estimations of the MFPT are available for various geometries, these…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-19 Juergen Reingruber , David Holcman

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 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

We compute the mean first passage time (MFPT) for a Brownian particle inside a two-dimensional disk with reflective boundaries and a small interior trap that is rotating at a constant angular velocity. The inherent symmetry of the problem…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Justin C. Tzou , Theodore Kolokolnikov

We investigate the mean first passage time of an active Brownian particle in one dimension using numerical simulations. The activity in one dimension is modeled as a two state model; the particle moves with a constant propulsion strength…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-14 Alberto Scacchi , Abhinav Sharma

Throughout physics Brownian dynamics are used to describe the behaviour of molecular systems. When the Brownian particle is confined to a bounded domain, a particularly important question arises around determining how long it takes the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Jason J. Bramburger

We study the first-passage-time (FPT) properties of active Brownian particles to reach an absorbing wall in two dimensions. Employing a perturbation approach we obtain exact analytical predictions for the survival and FPT distributions for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-10 Yanis Baouche , Magali Le Goff , Christina Kurzthaler , Thomas Franosch

We present an exact, time-resolved theory for a two-dimensional chiral active Brownian particle (cABP) with translational inertia. Using a Laplace-transform moment hierarchy, we derive closed-form expressions for the mean velocity,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-25 Anweshika Pattanayak , Sandip Roy , Abhishek Chaudhuri

We report a simulation study on the narrow escape kinetics of a Chiral Active Particle (CAP) confined to a circular domain with a narrow escape opening. The studys main objective is to optimize the CAPs escape changes as a function of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-05 Alakesh Upadhyaya , Venkata Sathish Akella

We study the dynamics of a single active Brownian particle (ABP) in two spatial dimensions. The ABP has an intrinsic time scale $D_R^{-1}$ set by the rotational diffusion constant $D_R$. We show that, at short-times $t \ll D_R^{-1}$, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-29 Urna Basu , Satya N. Majumdar , Alberto Rosso , Gregory Schehr

First passage time (FPT) theory is often used to estimate timescales in cellular and molecular biology. While the overwhelming majority of studies have focused on the time it takes a given single Brownian searcher to reach a target,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-03-13 Sean D. Lawley , Jacob B. Madrid
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