Diffusion-controlled annihilation A+B-->0 with initially separated reactants: the death of an A particle island in the B particle sea.
We consider the diffusion-controlled annihilation dynamics A+B-->0 with equal species diffusivities in the system where an island of particles A is surrounded by the uniform sea of particles B. We show that once the initial number of particles in the island is large enough, then at any system's dimensionality d the death of the majority of particles occurs in the universal scaling regime within which approximately 4/5 of the particles die at the island expansion stage and the remaining approximately 1/5 at the stage of its subsequent contraction. In the quasistatic approximation, the scaling of the reaction zone has been obtained for the cases of mean-field (d>or=d(c)) and fluctuation (d<d(c)) dynamics of the front.
Shipilevsky
Boris M
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Institute of Solid State Physics, Chernogolovka, Moscow, Russia.