Prof. Martin Evans

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"Stochastic resetting" is a rather common process in everyday
life. Consider searching for some target such as, for example, a face in a
crowd or one's misplaced keys at home. A natural tendency is, on having
searched unsuccessfully for a while, to return to the starting point and
recommence the search. In this talk I explore the consequences of such
resetting on perhaps the most simple and common process in nature, namely,
the diffusion of a single or a multiparticle system. It turns out that a
nonzero rate of resetting has a rather rich and dramatic effect on the
diffusion process, strongly affecting the behaviour of mean first passage
times and survival probabilities.

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University of Edinburgh
Seminarraum Theoretische Physik
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