Proportion of unaffected sites in a reaction-diffusion process

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/28/1/004MaRDI QIDQ4889221zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John L. Cardy

Publication date 16 December 1996

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9409045

zbMATH Keywords

field-theoretic renormalization-group methodsIsing and Potts modelsreaction-diffusion process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other physical applications of random processes (60K40) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

Abstract: We consider the probability $P(t)$ that a given site remains unvisited by any of a set of random walkers in $d$ dimensions undergoing the reaction $A+Ao0$ when they meet. We find that asymptotically $P(t)sim{t}^{-heta}$ with a universal exponent $heta=ffrac12-O(epsilon)$ for $d=2-epsilon$, while, for $d>2$, $heta$ is non-universal and depends on the reaction rate. The analysis, which uses field-theoretic renormalisation group methods, is also applied to the reaction $kAo0$ with $k>2$. In this case, a stretched exponential behaviour is found for all $dgeq1$, except in the case $k=3$, $d=1$, where $P(t)sim{me}^{-const(lnt{)}^{3/2}}$.

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