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Phys. Rev. E 69, 033101 (2004) [2 pages]

Comment on “Mean first passage time for anomalous diffusion”

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S. B. Yuste
Departamento de Física, Universidad de Extremadura, E-06071, Badajoz, Spain

Katja Lindenberg
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0340, USA

Received 16 July 2003; published 25 March 2004

We correct a previously erroneous calculation [Phys. Rev. E 62, 6065 (2000)] of the mean first passage time of a subdiffusive process to reach either end of a finite interval in one dimension. The mean first passage time is in fact infinite.


©2004 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.69.033101
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.69.033101
PACS: 05.40.-a, 02.50.-r

See Also

Original: M. Gitterman, Mean first passage time for anomalous diffusion, Phys. Rev. E 62, 6065 (2000)

Reply: M. Gitterman, Reply to “Comment on ‘Mean first passage time for anomalous diffusion.’ ”, Phys. Rev. E 69, 033102 (2004)

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