Spatial distribution of persistent sites

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/33/31/304MaRDI QIDQ4520635zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 13 December 2000

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/0003203

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic solutiondistribution of persistent sitesdynamic scalingempty intervalsnumerical simulationsprocess of irreversible coalescencereaction-diffusion modeltwo-point correlation function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Chemical kinetics in thermodynamics and heat transfer (80A30) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to statistical mechanics (82-04) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31)

Abstract: We study the distribution of persistent sites (sites unvisited by particles $A$) in one dimensional $A+Aoemptyset$ reaction-diffusion model. We define the {it empty intervals} as the separations between adjacent persistent sites, and study their size distribution $n(k,t)$ as a function of interval length $k$ and time $t$. The decay of persistence is the process of irreversible coalescence of these empty intervals, which we study analytically under the Independent Interval Approximation (IIA). Physical considerations suggest that the asymptotic solution is given by the dynamic scaling form $n(k,t)=s^{-2}f(k/s)$ with the average interval size $ssim{t}^{1/2}$. We show under the IIA that the scaling function $f(x)sim{x}^{-au}$ as $xo0$ and decays exponentially at large $x$. The exponent $au$ is related to the persistence exponent $heta$ through the scaling relation $au=2(1-heta)$. We compare these predictions with the results of numerical simulations. We determine the two-point correlation function $C(r,t)$ under the IIA. We find that for $rlls$, $C(r,t)sim{r}^{-alpha}$ where $alpha=2-au$, in agreement with our earlier numerical results.

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