Abstract
We study the one-dimensional motion of a Brownian particle inside a confinement described by two reactive boundaries which can partially reflect or absorb the particle. Understanding the effects of such boundaries is important in physics, chemistry, and biology. We compute the probability density of the particle displacement exactly, from which we derive expressions for the survival probability and the mean absorption time as a function of the reactive coefficients. Furthermore, using the Feynman-Kac formalism, we investigate the local time profile, which is the fluctuating time spent by the particle at a given location, both till a fixed observation time and till the absorption time. Our analytical results are compared to numerical simulations, showing perfect agreement.
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