Diffusion-controlled annihilation $A+B\to 0$ with initially separated reactants: The death of an $A$ particle island in the $B$ particle sea

Abstract

We consider the diffusion-controlled annihilation dynamics $A+B\to 0$ with equal species diffusivities in the system where an island of particles $A$ is surrounded by the uniform sea of particles $B$. We show that once the initial number of particles in the island is large enough, then at any system's dimensionality $d$ the death of the majority of particles occurs in the {\it universal scaling regime} within which $\approx 4/5$ of the particles die at the island expansion stage and the remaining $\approx 1/5$ at the stage of its subsequent contraction. In the quasistatic approximation the scaling of the reaction zone has been obtained for the cases of mean-field ($d\ge d_c$) and fluctuation ($d<d_c$) dynamics of the front.

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