Motivated by the diffusion-reaction kinetics on interstellar dust grains, we study a first-passage problem of mortal random walkers in a confined two-dimensional geometry. We provide an exact expression for the encounter probability of two walkers, which is evaluated in limiting cases and checked against extensive kinetic Monte Carlo simulations. We analyze the continuum limit which is approached very slowly, with corrections that vanish logarithmically with the lattice size. We then examine the influence of the shape of the lattice on the first-passage probability, where we focus on the aspect ratio dependence: Distorting the lattice always reduces the encounter probability of two walkers and can exhibit a crossover to the behavior of a genuinely one-dimensional random walk. The nature of this transition is also explained qualitatively.
A growing body of literature examines the effects of superdiffusive subballistic movement pre-measurement (ageing or time lag) on observations arising from single-particle tracking. A neglected aspect is the finite lifetime of these Lévy walkers, be they proteins, cells or larger structures. We examine the effects of ageing on the motility of mortal walkers, and discuss the means by which permanent stopping of walkers may be categorised as arising from `natural' death or experimental artefacts such as low photostability or radiation damage. This is done by comparison of the walkers' mean squar…
We consider a mortal random walker on a family of hierarchical graphs in the presence of some trap sites. The configuration comprising the graph, the starting point of the walk, and the locations of the trap sites is taken to be exactly self-similar as one goes from one generation of the family to the next. Under these circumstances, the total probability that the walker hits a trap is determined exactly as a function of the single-step survival probability $q$ of the mortal walker. On the $n^{\rm th}$ generation graph of the family, this probability is shown to be given by the $n^{\rm th}$ it…
Evanescent random walker on networks: Hitting times, budget renewal, and survival dynamics
Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut Jean Le Rond d’Alembert(索邦大学,法国国家科学研究中心,让·勒朗·达朗贝尔研究所);Departamento de Física, Universidad Nacional de Colombia(哥伦比亚国立大学生物物理系)
We present an analytical approach to study simple symmetric random walks (RWs) on a crossing geometry consisting of a plane square lattice crossed by $n_l$ number of lines that all meet each other at a single point (the origin) on the plane. The probability density to find the walker at a given distance from the origin either in a line or in the plane geometry is exactly calculated as a function of time t. We find that the large time asymptotic behavior of the walker for any arbitrary number $n_l$ of lines is eventually governed by the plane geometry after a crossover time approximately given …
Self-interacting random walks are endowed with long range memory effects that emerge from the interaction of the random walker at time $t$ with the territory that it has visited at earlier times $t'<t$. This class of non Markovian random walks has applications in a broad range of examples, ranging from insects to living cells, where a random walker modifies locally its environment -- leaving behind footprints along its path, and in turn responds to its own footprints. Because of their inherent non Markovian nature, the exploration properties of self-interacting random walks have remained elusi…
The chiral random walk: A quantum-inspired framework for odd diffusion
Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, University of Gdańsk(格但斯克大学理论物理与天体物理研究所);Institute of Spintronics and Quantum Information, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Adam Mickiewicz University(亚当·密茨凯维奇大学物理与天文学院自旋电子学与量子信息研究所);Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam(波茨坦大学物理与天体物理研究所)