Two scales in asynchronous ballistic annihilation

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/29/22/002MaRDI QIDQ4393745zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

Publication date 19 January 1999

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/9604106

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other physical applications of random processes (60K40) Dynamic lattice systems (kinetic Ising, etc.) and systems on graphs in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C20)

Abstract: The kinetics of single-species annihilation, $A+Ao0$, is investigated in which each particle has a fixed velocity which may be either $pmv$ with equal probability, and a finite diffusivity. In one dimension, the interplay between convection and diffusion leads to a decay of the density which is proportional to $t^{-3/4}$. At long times, the reactants organize into domains of right- and left-moving particles, with the typical distance between particles in a single domain growing as $t^{3/4}$, and the distance between domains growing as $t$. The probability that an arbitrary particle reacts with its $n^{mth}$ neighbor is found to decay as $n^{-5/2}$ for same-velocity pairs and as $n^{-7/4}$ for $+-$ pairs. These kinetic and spatial exponents and their interrelations are obtained by scaling arguments. Our predictions are in excellent agreement with numerical simulations.

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