Encounter-controlled coalescence and annihilation on a one-dimensional growing domain

Abstract

The kinetics of encounter-controlled processes in growing domains is markedly different from that in a static domain. Here, we consider the specific example of diffusion limited coalescence and annihilation reactions in one-dimensional space. In the static case, such reactions are among the few systems amenable to exact solution, which can be obtained by means of a well-known method of intervals. In the case of a uniformly growing domain, we show that a double transformation in time and space allows one to extend this method to compute the main quantities characterizing the spatial and temporal behavior. We show that a sufficiently fast domain growth brings about drastic changes in the behavior. In this case, the reactions stop prematurely, as a result of which the survival probability of the reacting particles tends to a finite value at long times and their spatial distribution freezes before reaching the fully self-ordered state. We obtain exact results for the survival probability and for key properties characterizing the degree of self-ordering induced by the chemical reactions, i.e., the interparticle distribution function and the pair correlation function. These results are confirmed by numerical simulations.

arXiv comment40 pages, 10 figures

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