Kinetics of diffusion-controlled annihilation with sparse initial conditions

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/49/50/504005MaRDI QIDQ2960265zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors E. Ben-Naim, P. L. Krapivsky

Publication date 8 February 2017

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.08268

zbMATH Keywords

finite-size scalingreaction kineticsreaction-diffusion processesstochastic processes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31)

Abstract: We study diffusion-controlled single-species annihilation with sparse initial conditions. In this random process, particles undergo Brownian motion, and when two particles meet, both disappear. We focus on sparse initial conditions where particles occupy a subspace of dimension $delta$ that is embedded in a larger space of dimension $d$. We find that the co-dimension $Delta=d-delta$ governs the behavior. All particles disappear when the co-dimension is sufficiently small, $Deltaleq2$; otherwise, a finite fraction of particles indefinitely survive. We establish the asymptotic behavior of the probability $S(t)$ that a test particle survives until time $t$. When the subspace is a line, $delta=1$, we find inverse logarithmic decay, $Ssim(lnt{)}^{-1}$, in three dimensions, and a modified power-law decay, $Ssim(lnt),t^{-1/2}$, in two dimensions. In general, the survival probability decays algebraically when $Delta<2$, and there is an inverse logarithmic decay at the critical co-dimension $Delta=2$.

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