Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2004-04-26
Physical Review Letters 93 (2004) 166401
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
17 pages, 6 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.166401
We analyzed the stochastic behavior of systems controlled by autocatalytic reaction A+X -> X+X, X+X -> A+X, X -> B provided that the distribution of reacting particles in the system volume is uniform, i.e. the point model of reaction kinetics introduced in arXiv:cond-mat/0404402 can be applied. Assuming the number of substrate particles A to be kept constant by a suitable reservoir, we derived the forward Kolmogorov equation for the probability of finding n=0,1,... autocatalytic particles X in the system at a given time moment. We have shown that the stochastic model results in an equation for the mean value of autocatalytic particles X which differs strongly from the kinetic rate equation. It has been found that not only the law of the mass action is violated but also the bifurcation point is disappeared in the well-known diagram of X particle- vs. A particle-concentration. Therefore, speculations about the role of autocatalytic reactions in processes of the "natural selection" can be hardly supported.
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