Ballistic Annihilation
Statistical Mechanics
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
Ballistic annihilation with continuous initial velocity distributions is investigated in the framework of Boltzmann equation. The particle density and the rms velocity decay as and , with the exponents depending on the initial velocity distribution and the spatial dimension. For instance, in one dimension for the uniform initial velocity distribution we find . We also solve the Boltzmann equation for Maxwell particles and very hard particles in arbitrary spatial dimension. These solvable cases provide bounds for the decay exponents of the hard sphere gas.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0005539,
title = {Ballistic Annihilation},
author = {Paul L. Kaprivsky and Clément Sire},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0005539},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 RevTeX pages and 1 Eps figure; submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett