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The mean first exit (passage) time characterizes the average time of a stochastic process never leaving a fixed region in the state space, while the escape probability describes the likelihood of a transition from one region to another for…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-02-28 Weihua Deng , Xiaochao Wu , Wanli Wang

We present an analytical approximation scheme for the first passage time distribution on a finite interval of a random walker on a random forcing energy landscape. The approximation scheme captures the behavior of the distribution over all…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-09-23 Michael Sheinman , Olivier Bénichou , Raphaël Voituriez , Yariv Kafri

For a process U(t,s) acting on a one-parameter family of normed spaces, we present a notion of time-dependent attractor based only on the minimality with respect to the pullback attraction property. Such an attractor is shown to be…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-09-27 Monica Conti , Vittorino Pata , Roger Temam

The transition between low and high density phases is a typical feature of systems with social interactions. This contribution focuses on simple evacuation design of one room with one entrance and one exit; four passing-through experiments…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-01-27 Marek Bukáček , Pavel Hrabák , Milan Krbálek

An attractor of a piecewise-smooth continuous system of differential equations can bifurcate from a stable equilibrium to a more complicated invariant set when it collides with a switching manifold under parameter variation. Here numerical…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-08-24 D. J. W. Simpson

We study the time constant $\mu(e_{1})$ in first passage percolation on $\mathbb Z^{d}$ as a function of the dimension. We prove that if the passage times have finite mean, $$\lim_{d \to \infty} \frac{\mu(e_{1}) d}{\log d} = \frac{1}{2a},$$…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-01-29 Antonio Auffinger , Si Tang

In this paper we introduce the notion of a patient first-mean stable system. Such systems are switched systems that are first-mean stable meaning that they converge to a globally attracting fixed point on average. They are also patient so…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Camille Carter , Jacob Murri , David Reber , Benjamin Webb

First-passage times in random walks have a vast number of diverse applications in physics, chemistry, biology, and finance. In general, environmental conditions for a stochastic process are not constant on the time scale of the average…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-06-13 Martin Falcke , V. Nicolai Friedhoff

In this paper we consider a system with two carousels operated by one picker. The items to be picked are randomly located on the carousels and the pick times follow a phase-type distribution. The picker alternates between the two carousels,…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-04-23 Maria Vlasiou , Ivo J. B. F. Adan , Jaap Wessels

We study the first-passage properties of a random walk in the unit interval in which the length of a single step is uniformly distributed over the finite range [-a,a]. For a of the order of one, the exit probabilities to each edge of the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Antal , S. Redner

Despite their apparent simplicity, random Boolean networks display a rich variety of dynamical behaviors. Much work has been focused on the properties and abundance of attractors. We here derive an expression for the number of attractors in…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Björn Samuelsson , Carl Troein

We consider the mean first passage time (MFPT) for a diffusive particle in a potential landscape with the extra condition that the particle is reset to its original position with some rate r. We study non-smooth and non-convex potentials…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-16 Johannes Aspman , Daniel Mastropietro , Jakub Marecek

The first-return time is the time that it takes a random walker to go back to the initial position for the first time. We study the first-return time when random walkers perform fractional kinetics, specifically fractional diffusion, that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-17 M. Dahlenburg G. Pagnini

In [2], it was claimed that the time constant $\mu_{d}(e_{1})$ for the first-passage percolation model on $\mathbb Z^{d}$ is $\mu_{d}(e_{1}) \sim \log d/(2ad)$ as $d\to \infty$, if the passage times $(\tau_{e})_{e\in \mathbb E^{d}}$ are…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Antonio Auffinger , Si Tang

The study of first passage times for diffusing particles reaching target states is foundational in various practical applications, including diffusion-controlled reactions. In this work, we present a bi-scaling theory for the probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-21 Talia Baravi , David A. Kessler , Eli Barkai

Attractors of dynamical systems may be networks in phase space that can be heteroclinic (where there are dynamical connections between simple invariant sets) or excitable (where a perturbation threshold needs to be crossed to a dynamical…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-04-24 Peter Ashwin , Claire Postlethwaite

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 derive an approximate but fully explicit formula for the mean first-passage time (MFPT) to a small absorbing target of arbitrary shape in a general elongated domain in the plane. Our approximation combines conformal mapping, boundary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-14 Denis S. Grebenkov , Alexei T. Skvortsov

First-passage times provide invaluable insight into fundamental properties of stochastic processes. Yet, various forms of gating mask first-passage times and differentiate them from actual detection times. For instance, imperfect conditions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-27 Aanjaneya Kumar , Yuval Scher , Shlomi Reuveni , M. S. Santhanam

The main subject of the paper is an escape from a multi-well metastable potential on a time-scale of a formation of the quasi-equilibrium between the wells. The main attention is devoted to such ranges of friction in which an external…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 S. M. Soskin