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Effect of Partial Absorption on Diffusion with Resetting

arXiv:1301.2489 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.87.022118

Abstract

The effect of partial absorption on a diffusive particle which stochastically resets its position with a finite rate is considered. The particle is absorbed by a target at the origin with absorption `velocity' ; as the velocity approaches the absorption property of the target approaches that of a perfectly-absorbing target. The effect of partial absorption on first-passage time problems is studied, in particular, it is shown that the mean time to absorption (MTA) is increased by an additive term proportional to . The results are extended to multiparticle systems where independent searchers, initially uniformly distributed with a given density, look for a single immobile target. It is found that the average survival probability is modified by a multiplicative factor which is a function of , whereas the decay rate of the typical survival probability is decreased by an additive term proportional to .

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