Vittoria Sposini, Sankaran Nampoothiri, Aleksei Chechkin, Enzo Orlandini, Flavio Seno, Fulvio Baldovin
Diffusing diffusivity models, polymers in the grand canonical ensemble and polydisperse, and continuous-time random walks all exhibit stages of non-Gaussian diffusion. Is non-Gaussian targeting more efficient than Gaussian? We address this question, central to, e.g., diffusion-limited reactions and some biological processes, through a general approach that makes use of Jensen's inequality and that encompasses all these systems. In terms of customary mean first-passage time, we show that Gaussian searches are more effective than non-Gaussian ones...
March 2024: Physical Review. E