Self-organization in the A + B → 0 reaction of charged particles

V. Kuzovkov and E. Kotomin

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1992, vol. 191, issue 1, 172-176

Abstract: The formalism of many-particle densities developed earlier by the authors is applied to the study of the self-organization phenomena occuring during the course of the bimolecular A + B → 0 reaction between charged particles, interacting via the Coulomb law. Unlike the Debye-Hückel theory, charge screening has an essentially non-equilibrium character. It is shown that for the asymmetric mobility of reactants (DA = 0, DB ≠ 0) similar immobile reactants A form aggregates characterized by a sharp maximum, observed at short distances, in the joint correlation function XA(r, t). Such an aggregation leads to the accelerated particle recombination n ∝ t-54 (nA = nB = n) instead of the generally accepted algebraic law n ∝ t−1.

Date: 1992
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(92)90522-R

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