Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2011-06-03
Phys. Rev. E 85, 011131(2012)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
10.1103/Phys.RevE85.011131
In this paper, influence of crowding by inert particles on the geminate reaction kinetics is theoretically investigated. Time evolution equations for the survival probability of a geminate pair are derived from the master equation taking into account the correlation among all diffusing particles. The results interpolate between low and high concentrations of the inert particles. Excluded volume interactions by the inert particles hinder the diffusive motion of reactants. When the initial distribution of the inert particles is uniform, the excluded volume interactions slow the decay of the survival probability of a geminate pair in contrast to the acceleration of the decay found for the target problem under the presence of the excluded volume interactions among reactants. We also obtain the escape probability for a non-uniform initial distribution of the inert particles and show that reaction yield is increased when the reaction proceeds in the presence of a positive density gradient of the inert particles which inhibits the escape of reactants. The effect can be interpreted as a cage effect.
Seki Kazuhiko
Tachiya M.
Wojcik Mariusz
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