Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2006-04-05
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.74.016119
We study 2D fronts propagating up a co-moving reaction rate gradient in finite number reaction-diffusion systems. We show that in a 2D rectangular channel, planar solutions to the deterministic mean-field equation are stable with respect to deviations from planarity. We argue that planar fronts in the corresponding stochastic system, on the other hand, are unstable if the channel width exceeds a critical value. Furthermore, the velocity of the stochastic fronts is shown to depend on the channel width in a simple and interesting way, in contrast to fronts in the deterministic MFE. Thus, fluctuations alter the behavior of these fronts in an essential way. These affects are shown to be partially captured by introducing a density cutoff in the reaction rate. Some of the predictions of the cutoff mean-field approach are shown to be in quantitative accord with the stochastic results.
Kessler David A.
Levine Herbert
Wylie Scott C.
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