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Diffusion with stochastic resetting at power-law times

arXiv:1512.02092 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.93.060102

Abstract

What happens when a continuously evolving stochastic process is interrupted with large changes at random intervals distributed as a power-law ? Modeling the stochastic process by diffusion and the large changes as abrupt resets to the initial condition, we obtain {\em exact} closed-form expressions for both static and dynamic quantities, while accounting for strong correlations implied by a power-law. Our results show that the resulting dynamics exhibits a spectrum of rich long-time behavior, from an ever-spreading spatial distribution for , to one that is time independent for . The dynamics has strong consequences on the time to reach a distant target for the first time; we specifically show that there exists an optimal that minimizes the mean time to reach the target, thereby offering a step towards a viable strategy to locate targets in a crowded environment.

8 pages, 3 figures. v2: Version published in Phys. Rev. E as a rapid comm., includes Suppl. Mat

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