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In order to approximate the exit time of a one-dimensional diffusion process, we propose an algorithm based on a random walk. Such an algorithm so-called Walk on Moving Spheres was already introduced in the Brownian context. The aim is…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Samuel Herrmann , Nicolas Massin

We analyze the mean squared displacement of a Brownian particle in a medium with a spatially varying local diffusivity which is assumed to be periodic. When the system is asymptotically diffusive the mean squared displacement,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-23 David S. Dean , Thomas Guérin

The determination of the mean first passage time (MFPT) for a Brownian particle in a bounded 2-D domain containing small absorbing traps is a fundamental problem with biophysical applications. The average MFPT is the expected capture time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-24 Sarafa A. Iyaniwura , Tony Wong , Colin B. Macdonald , Micheal J. Ward

We study the dynamics of an active Brownian particle with a nonlinear friction function located in a spatial cubic potential. For strong but finite damping, the escape rate of the particle over the spatial potential barrier shows a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-02 P. S. Burada , B. Lindner

In order to approximate the exit time of a one-dimensional diffusion process, we propose an algorithm based on a random walk. Such an algorithm was already introduced in both the Brownian context and in the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck context. Here…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Samuel Herrmann , Nicolas Massin

We explore the archetype problem of an escape dynamics occurring in a symmetric double well potential when the Brownian particle is driven by {\it white L\'evy noise} in a dynamical regime where inertial effects can safely be neglected. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Dybiec E. Gudowska-Nowak P. Hänggi

This paper deals with the mean first escape time of Brownian motion on asymptotically hyperbolic and gas giant surfaces. We show that for a boundary defining function $\rho$, the mean first escape time $u_\epsilon(x)$ from the truncated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Jesse Gell-Redman , Emanuel József Godfried , Justin Tzou , Leo Tzou

We investigate the absorption of diffusing molecules in a fluid-filled spherical beaker that contains many small reactive traps. The molecules are absorbed either by hitting a trap or by escaping via the beaker walls. In the physical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-17 P. L. Krapivsky , S. Redner

We study the problem of particles undergoing Brownian motion in an expanding sphere whose surface is an absorbing boundary for the particles. The problem is akin to that of the diffusion of impurities in a grain of polycrystalline material…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Karl Forsberg , Ali R. Massih

We consider the thermally activated escape of an overdamped Brownian particle over a potential barrier in the presence of periodic driving. A time-dependent path-integral formalism is developed which allows us to derive asymptotically exact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jörg Lehmann , Peter Reimann , Peter Hänggi

The problems of escape from metastable state in randomly flipping potential and of diffusion in fast fluctuating periodic potentials are considered. For the overdamped Brownian particle moving in a piecewise linear dichotomously fluctuating…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bernardo Spagnolo , Alexander A. Dubkov , Nikolay V. Agudov

We study the noise-driven escape of active Brownian particles (ABPs) and run-and-tumble particles (RTPs) from confining potentials. In the small noise limit, we provide an exact expression for the escape rate in term of a variational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-03 Eric Woillez , Yongfeng Zhao , Yariv Kafri , Vivien Lecomte , Julien Tailleur

We study the one-dimensional motion of a Brownian particle inside a confinement described by two reactive boundaries which can partially reflect or absorb the particle. Understanding the effects of such boundaries is important in physics,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-30 Arnab Pal , Isaac Pérez Castillo , Anupam Kundu

We study the exit-time from a domain of a self-interacting diffusion, where the Brownian motion is replaced by $\sigma B_t$ for a constant $\sigma$. The first part of this work consists in showing that the rate of convergence (of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-26 Ashot Aleksian , Pierre Del Moral , Aline Kurtzmann , Julian Tugaut

We calculate the exact asymptotic survival probability, Q, of a one-dimensional Brownian particle, initially located located at the point x in (-L,L), in the presence of two moving absorbing boundaries located at \pm(L+ct). The result is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Alan J. Bray , Richard Smith

This paper investigates a diffusion process in a narrow tubular domain with reflecting boundary conditions, where the geometry serves as a singular perturbation of an underlying graph in $\mathbb{R}^2$ or $\mathbb{R}^3$. The construction…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Wen-Tai Hsu

The problem of noise-induced escape from a metastable state arises in physics, chemistry, biology, systems engineering, and other areas. The problem is well understood when the underlying dynamics of the system obey detailed balance. When…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 Robert S. Maier , D. L. Stein

We investigate the escape rate of an overdamped, self-propelled spherical Brownian particle on a surface from a metastable potential well. Within a modeling in terms of a 1D constant speed of the particle's active dynamics we consider the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-10-12 Alexander Geiseler , Peter Hänggi , Gerhard Schmid

The mean exit time function defined on the $\delta$-tube around any equator $\mathbb{S}^{n-1} \subseteq \mathbb{S}^{n}$ of the sphere $\mathbb{S}^{n}$, ($0<\delta<\pi/2$), goes to infinity with the dimension, so that when we consider a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-01 G. Pacelli Bessa , Vicent Gimeno i Garcia , Vicente Palmer

We consider a Brownian particle, with diffusion constant D, moving inside an expanding d-dimensional sphere whose surface is an absorbing boundary for the particle. The sphere has initial radius L_0 and expands at a constant rate c. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alan J Bray , Richard Smith