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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

Finding the first time a fluctuating quantity reaches a given boundary is a deceptively simple-looking problem of vast practical importance in physics, biology, chemistry, neuroscience, economics and industry. Problems in which the bound to…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-05 Thibaud Taillefumier , Marcelo O. Magnasco

We analyze two-particle pseudorapidity correlations in a simple model, where strings of fluctuating length are attached to wounded nucleons.The obtained straightforward formulas allow us to understand the anatomy of the correlations, i.e.,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-03-30 Wojciech Broniowski , Piotr Bozek

One of the most fundamental quantities associated with polymer translocation through a nanopore is the translocation time $\tau$ and its dependence on the chain length $N$. Our simulation results based on both the bond fluctuation Monte…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-11-08 Kaifu Luo , Tapio Ala-Nissila , See-Chen Ying , Pawel Pomorski , Mikko Karttunen

We investigate the spatio-temporal quantity of coherence for turbulent velocity fluctuations at spatial distances of the order or larger than the integral length scale $l_{0}$. Using controlled laboratory experiments, an exponential decay…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-19 G. Prabhudesai , S. Perrard , F. Pétrélis , S. Fauve

The general, multidimensional barrier crossing problem for diffusive processes under the action of conservative forces is studied with the goal of developing tractable approximations. Particular attention is given to the effect of different…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-03 James F. Lutsko

A phenomenological model for a measurement of barrier traversal times for particles is proposed. Two idealized detectors for passage and arrival provide entrance and exit times for the barrier traversal. The averaged traversal time is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. P. Palao , J. G. Muga , S. Brouard , A. Jadczyk

Simple active models of matter recapitulate complex biological phenomena. The out-of-equilibrium nature of these models, however, often makes them beyond the reach of first-principle descriptions. This limitation is particularly perplexing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-07 Mingyuan Zheng , Dmytro Khomenko , Patrick Charbonneau

Recently a general growth curve including the well known growth equations, such as Malthus, logistic, Bertallanfy, Gompertz, has been studied. We now propose two stochastic formulations of this growth equation. They are obtained starting…

Human motor activities are known to exhibit scale-free long-term correlated fluctuations over a wide range of timescales, from few to thousands of seconds. The fundamental processes originating such fractal-like behavior are not yet…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Anteneodo , D. R. Chialvo

Wall turbulence has a sublayer where the mean wall-normal flux of the streamwise momentum is constant. Via the law of the wall, this mean flux is related to the wall-normal profile of the mean streamwise velocity. However, the momentum flux…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-10 H. Mouri , J. Ito

We consider the well-known minimizing-movement approach to the definition of a solution of gradient-flow type equations by means of an implicit Euler scheme depending on an energy and a dissipation term. We perturb the energy by considering…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-09 Andrea Braides , Antonio Tribuzio

We consider fluctuations of the time-averaged current in the one-dimensional weakly-asymmetric exclusion process on a ring. The optimal density profile which sustains a given fluctuation exhibits an instability for low enough currents,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-29 Carlos P. Espigares , Pedro L. Garrido , Pablo I. Hurtado

The fluctuation theorems have remained one of the cornerstones in the study of systems that are driven far out of equilibrium, and they provide strong constraints on the fraction of trajectories that behave atypically in light of the second…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-05 Sourabh Lahiri , A. M. Jayannavar

For thermostatted dissipative systems the Fluctuation Theorem gives an analytical expression for the ratio of probabilities that the time averaged entropy production in a finite system observed for a finite time, takes on a specified value…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Denis J. Evans , Debra J. Searles , Emil Mittag

We study the effect of parameter fluctuations on synchronization of a coupled chaotic system. The fluctuations to the parameter can be random or it can be a periodic modulation. For random fluctuations we introduce a new quantity, the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-07-24 M. P John , P. U Jijo , V. M Nandakumaran

We study fluctuations of small noise multiscale diffusions around their homogenized deterministic limit. We derive quantitative rates of convergence of the fluctuation processes to their Gaussian limits in the appropriate Wasserstein metric…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Solesne Bourguin , Konstantinos Spiliopoulos

The position of a colloidal particle trapped in an external field thermally fluctuates at equilibrium. As is well known, the ambient fluid is not a simple heat bath and the particle mass appears to increase, which influences the mean square…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-04-20 Youhei Fujitani

We study fluctuations in diffusion-limited reaction systems driven out of their stationary state. Using a numerically exact method, we investigate fluctuation ratios in various systems which differ by their level of violation of microscopic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sven Dorosz , Michel Pleimling

We study the stability of deterministic systems given sequences of large, jump-like perturbations. Our main result is to dervie a lower bound for the probability of the system to remain in the basin, given that perturbations are rare…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-11-26 Paul Schultz , Frank Hellmann , Kevin N. Webster , Jürgen Kurths