Equilibrium properties of a monomer-monomer catalytic reaction on a one-dimensional chain.
We study the equilibrium properties of a lattice-gas model of an A+B-->0 catalytic reaction on a one-dimensional chain in contact with a reservoir for the particles. The particles of species A and B are in thermal contact with their vapor phases acting as reservoirs, i.e., they may adsorb onto empty lattice sites and may desorb from the lattice. If adsorbed A and B particles appear at neighboring lattice sites, they instantaneously react and both desorb. For this model of a catalytic reaction in the adsorption-controlled limit, we derive analytically the expression of the pressure and present exact results for the mean densities of particles and for the compressibilities of the adsorbate as a function of the chemical potentials of the two species.
Oshanin
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Laboratoire de Physique Théorique des Liquides, Université Paris 6, 4 Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris, France. oshanin@lptl.jussieu.fr
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