Diffusion-limited annihilation in inhomogeneous environments

Details Diffusion-limited annihilation in inhomogeneous environments Diffusion-limited annihilation in inhomogeneous environments

1997-07-29

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9707293v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

27 pages, Latex, to appear in Z. Phys. B

Scientific paper

10.1007/s002570050493

We study diffusion-limited (on-site) pair annihilation $A+A\to 0$ and (on-site) fusion $A+A\to A$ which we show to be equivalent for arbitrary space-dependent diffusion and reaction rates. For one-dimensional lattices with nearest neighbour hopping we find that in the limit of infinite reaction rate the time-dependent $n$-point density correlations for many-particle initial states are determined by the correlation functions of a dual diffusion-limited annihilation process with at most $2n$ particles initially. By reformulating general properties of annihilating random walks in one dimension in terms of fermionic anticommutation relations we derive an exact representation for these correlation functions in terms of conditional probabilities for a single particle performing a random walk with dual hopping rates. This allows for the exact and explicit calculation of a wide range of universal and non-universal types of behaviour for the decay of the density and density correlations.

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