Reaction kinetics of diffusing particles injected into ad-dimensional reactive substrate
- 8 March 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 70 (10) , 1461-1464
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.70.1461
Abstract
We study a system in which diffusing particles (species A) are injected into a reactive d-dimensional substrate (species B) at rate λ, with the rule that A+B→C (inert). The amount of species C, C(t), and the number of surviving A particles, A(t), are calculated for substrate dimensions d=1, 2, and 3. We find the surprising results A(t)∼ for d=3 and C(t)∼ √t lnt for d=1. We confirm our predictions by performing Monte Carlo simulations for d=1, 2, and 3 and experiments for the reaction +→ for d=2.
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