Discreteness-Induced Slow Relaxation in Reversible Catalytic Reaction Networks

Abstract

Slowing down of the relaxation of the fluctuations around equilibrium is investigated both by stochastic simulations and by analysis of Master equation of reversible reaction networks consisting of resources and the corresponding products that work as catalysts. As the number of molecules $N$ is decreased, the relaxation time to equilibrium is prolonged due to the deficiency of catalysts, as demonstrated by the amplification compared to that by the continuum limit. This amplification ratio of the relaxation time is represented by a scaling function as $h=N\exp (-\beta V)$, and it becomes prominent as $N$ becomes less than a critical value $h\sim 1$, where $\beta$ is the inverse temperature and $V$ is the energy gap between a product and a resource.

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