Scaling anomalies in reaction front dynamics of confined systems
- 22 November 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 71 (21) , 3592-3595
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.71.3592
Abstract
We study the kinetics of the reaction front for diffusion-reaction systems of the form A+B→C which are confined to one dimension, and in which the reactants are initially separated. For the case in which both A and B diffuse, the spatial moments of the reaction front are characterized by a hierarchy of exponents, bounded by the exponents, σ=1/4 and δ=3/8 characterizing the asymptotic time dependence of the distance (t) between nearest neighbor A and B particles and the fluctuations of the midpoint m(t) between them, respectively. We argue that this behavior arises from confinement effects and will appear in other confined systems.
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