Exact correlations in the one-dimensional coagulation-diffusion process by the empty-interval method

Details Exact correlations in the one-dimensional coagulation-diffusion process by the empty-interval method Exact correlations in the one-dimensional coagulation-diffusion process by the empty-interval method

2010-01-20

arxiv.org/abs/1001.3526v2

J.Stat.Mech.1004:P04002,2010

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

Latex2e, 32 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/1742-5468/2010/04/P04002

The long-time dynamics of reaction-diffusion processes in low dimensions is dominated by fluctuation effects. The one-dimensional coagulation-diffusion process describes the kinetics of particles which freely hop between the sites of a chain and where upon encounter of two particles, one of them disappears with probability one. The empty-interval method has, since a long time, been a convenient tool for the exact calculation of time-dependent particle densities in this model. We generalise the empty-interval method by considering the probability distributions of two simultaneous empty intervals at a given distance. While the equations of motion of these probabilities reduce for the coagulation-diffusion process to a simple diffusion equation in the continuum limit, consistency with the single-interval distribution introduces several non-trivial boundary conditions which are solved for the first time for arbitrary initial configurations. In this way, exact space-time-dependent correlation functions can be directly obtained and their dynamic scaling behaviour is analysed for large classes of initial conditions.

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