Annihilating random walks in one-dimensional disordered media

Abstract

We study diffusion-limited pair annihilation $A+A\to 0$ on one-dimensional lattices with inhomogeneous nearest neighbour hopping in the limit of infinite reaction rate. We obtain a simple exact expression for the particle concentration ${\rho }_k(t)$ of the many-particle system in terms of the conditional probabilities $P(m;t|l;0)$ for a single random walker in a dual medium. For some disordered systems with an initially randomly filled lattice this leads asymptotically to $\overline{\rho (t)}=\overline{P(0;2t|0;0)}$ for the disorder-averaged particle density. We also obtain interesting exact relations for single-particle conditional probabilities in random media related by duality, such as random-barrier and random-trap systems. For some specific random barrier systems the Smoluchovsky approach to diffusion-limited annihilation turns out to fail.

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• Diffusion-limited annihilation in inhomogeneous environments

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