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cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Universality and ambiguity in extremes of anomalous diffusion

Sean D Lawley

Many biophysical processes begin when the fastest searcher finds a target out of many random searchers, which is called an extreme or fastest first passage time (fFPT). In some mod…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Channel transport: gating, geometry, and heterogeneous diffusion

Sean D Lawley

Channel-mediated transport is ubiquitous in biology. A series of works by different theoreticians have sought to determine how the diffusive flux through a channel depends on (a) s…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Diffusive flux into a stochastically gated tube

Sean D Lawley

Diffusion-influenced reactions in the presence of gates which randomly open and close have been studied for decades in a variety of biophysical and biochemical scenarios. The diffu…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026★ 1 cited

Yet another look at narrow escape through a tube

Victorya Richardson, Yick Hin Ling, Sean D Lawley

The narrow escape problem concerns the time needed for a diffusing particle to exit a confining domain through a small hole in the boundary. While this problem is now well-understo…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026★ 1 cited

Stochastic search with space-dependent diffusivity

Hwai-Ray Tung, Sean D Lawley

The canonical model of stochastic search tracks a randomly diffusing "searcher" until it finds a "target." Owing to its many applications across science and engineering, this peren…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025★ 1 cited

Escape from heterogeneous diffusion

Hwai-Ray Tung, Sean D Lawley

Many physical processes depend on the time it takes a diffusing particle to find a target. Though this classical quantity is now well-understood in various scenarios, little is kno…