Author(s): Denis S. Grebenkov, Ralf Metzler, and Gleb Oshanin Deploying $N$ Brownian searchers reduces the mean search time for an immobile target merely by a factor $1/\mathrm{ln}N$. We show that this conclusion is highly sensitive to the short-time dynamics of individual searchers. Based on the telegrapher’s equation we demonstrate that the classical logarit… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 127102] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026