Unified approach to reset processes and application to coupling between process and reset

Abstract: We present a unified approach to those observables of stochastic processes under reset that take the form of averages of functionals depending on the most recent renewal period. We derive solutions for the observables, and determine the conditions for existence and equality of their stationary values with and without reset. For intermittent reset times, we derive exact asymptotic expressions for observables that vary asymptotically as a power of time. We illustrate the general approach with general and particular results for the power spectral density, and moments of subdiffusive processes. We focus on coupling of the process and reset via a diffusion-decay process with microscopic dependence between transport and decay. In contrast to the uncoupled case, we find that restarting the particle upon decay does not produce a probability current equal to the decay rate, but instead drastically alters the time dependence of the decay rate and the resulting current.