Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2002-09-16
Phys. Rev. E (2003) 67 041101
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
13 pages, RevTeX4, 6 figures. Figures and references updated; equations corrected; discussion clarified
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.67.041101
The problem of a diffusing particle moving among diffusing traps is analyzed in general space dimension d. We consider the case where the traps are initially randomly distributed in space, with uniform density rho, and derive upper and lower bounds for the probability Q(t) (averaged over all particle and trap trajectories) that the particle survives up to time t. We show that, for 1<=d<2, the bounds converge asymptotically to give $Q(t) \sim exp(-\lambda_d t^{d/2})$ where $\lambda_d = (2/\pi d) sin(\pi d/2) (4\pi D)^{d/2} \rho$ and D is the diffusion constant of the traps, and that $Q(t) \sim exp(- 4\pi\rho D t/ln t)$ for d=2. For d>2 bounds can still be derived, but they no longer converge for large t. For 1<=d<=2, these asymptotic form are independent of the diffusion constant of the particle. The results are compared with simulation results obtained using a new algorithm [V. Mehra and P. Grassberger, Phys. Rev. E v65 050101 (2002)] which is described in detail. Deviations from the predicted asymptotic forms are found to be large even for very small values of Q(t), indicating slowly decaying corrections whose form is consistent with the bounds. We also present results in d=1 for the case where the trap densities on either side of the particle are different. For this case we can still obtain exact bounds but they no longer converge.
Blythe Richard A.
Bray Alan J.
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