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Mean joint residence time of two Brownian particles in a sphere

arXiv:cond-mat/0510621 · doi:10.1088/0305-4470/38/33/001

Abstract

We calculate the mean joint residence time of two Brownian particles in a sphere, for very general initial conditions. In particular, we focus on the dependence of this residence time as a function of the diffusion coefficients of the two particles. Our results can be useful for describing kinetics of bimolecular diffusion controlled reactions activated by catalytic sites.