Tracer dynamics in a single-file system with absorbing boundary

Abstract

The paper addresses the single-file diffusion in the presence of an absorbing boundary. The emphasis is on an interplay between the hard-core interparticle interaction and the absorption process. The resulting dynamics exhibits several qualitatively new features. First, starting with the exact probability density function for a given particle (a tracer), we study the long-time asymptotics of its moments. Both the mean position and the mean square displacement are controlled by dynamical exponents which depend on the initial order of the particle in the file. Secondly, conditioning on non-absorption, we study the distribution of long-living particles. In the conditioned framework, the dynamical exponents are the same for all particles, however, a given particle possesses an effective diffusion coefficient which depends on its initial order. After performing the thermodynamic limit, the conditioned dynamics of the tracer is subdiffusive, the generalized diffusion coefficient $D_{1/2}$ being different from that reported for the system without absorbing boundary.

Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. E

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