Redundancy in biology may be explained by the need to optimize extreme searching
processes, where one or few among many particles are requested to reach the target like in …

Many events in biology are triggered when a diffusing searcher finds a target, which is called
a first passage time (FPT). The overwhelming majority of FPT studies have analyzed the time …

The timescales of many physical, chemical, and biological processes are determined by first
passage times (FPTs) of diffusion. The overwhelming majority of FPT research studies the …

Many physical, chemical, and biological systems depend on the first passage time (FPT) of a
diffusive searcher to a target. Typically, this FPT is much slower than the characteristic …

First passage time (FPT) theory is often used to estimate timescales in cellular and
molecular biology. While the overwhelming majority of studies have focused on the time it …

We explore the case of a group of random walkers looking for a target randomly located in
space, such that the number of walkers is not constant but new ones can join the search, or …

Many biological, social, and communication systems can be modeled by “searchers” moving
through a complex network. For example, intracellular cargo is transported on tubular …

We study a random target searching performed by N independent searchers in ad-
dimensional domain of a large but finite volume. Considering the two initial distributions of …

Order statistics for d-dimensional diffusion processes Page 1 Order statistics for d-dimensional
diffusion processes SB Yuste* and L. Acedo† Departamento de Fısica, Universidad de …

The time it takes the fastest searcher out of N≫ 1 searchers to find a target determines the
timescale of many physical, chemical, and biological processes. This time is called an …