Logarithmic speed-up of relaxation in A-B annihilation with exclusion

Physical Review. E
Rahul Dandekar

Abstract

We show that the decay of the density of active particles in the reaction A+B→0 in one dimension, with exclusion interaction, results in logarithmic corrections to the expected power law decay, when the starting initial condition (i.c.) is periodic. It is well known that the late-time density of surviving particles goes as t^{-1/4} with random initial conditions, and as t^{-1/2} with alternating initial conditions (ABABAB⋯). We show that the decay for periodic i.c.'s made of longer blocks (A^{n}B^{n}A^{n}B^{n}⋯) do not show a pure power-law decay when n is even. By means of first-passage Monte Carlo simulations, and a mapping to a q-state coarsening model which can be solved in the independent interval approximation (IIA), we show that the late-time decay of the density of surviving particles goes as t^{-1/2}[ln(t)]^{-1} for n even, but as t^{-1/2} when n is odd. We relate this kinetic symmetry breaking in the Glauber Ising model. We also see a very slow crossover from a t^{-1/2}[ln(t)]^{-1} regime to eventual t^{-1/2} behavior for i.c.'s made of mixtures of odd- and even-length blocks.

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