title: Random sequential adsorption of objects of decreasing size.
abstract: We consider the model of random sequential adsorption, with the depositing objects, as well as those already at the surface, decreasing in size according to a specified time dependence, from a larger initial value to a finite value in the large-time limit. Numerical Monte Carlo simulations of two-dimensional deposition of disks and one-dimensional deposition of segments are reported for the density-density correlation function and gap-size distribution function, respectively. Analytical considerations supplement numerical results in the one-dimensional case. We investigate the correlation hole-the depletion of correlation functions near contact and, for the present model, their vanishing at contact-that opens up at finite times, as well as its closing and reemergence of the logarithmic divergence of correlation properties at contact in the large-time limit.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York 13699-5721, USA.
authors.forename: Oleksandr
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Gromenko
authors.forename: Vladimir
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Privman