Communications in Theoretical Physics ›› 1995, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (2): 167-174.

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Mean First-Passage Time for Non-Markovian Processes Driven by Continuous Noise

Ming YANG1, Da-Jin WU1,2, Li CAO1,2   

  1. 1. Department of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China;
    2. CCAST (World Laboratory), P. O. Box 8730, Beijing 100080, China
  • Received: 1993-11-24 Published: 1995-03-15
  • Funding Information: 

    The project supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Abstract: In this article, we discuss the mean first-passage time for non-Markovian processes driven by continuous noise. Applying the iterative method to the Volterra integral equation, we obtain for the first time the series solution to the mean first-passage time problem and present the exact expression for the mean first-passage time in both the cases of rectangular distribution and long-tail distribution.