English

Exact Results for Kinetics of Catalytic Reactions

Condensed Matter 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

The kinetics of an irreversible catalytic reaction on substrate of arbitrary dimension is examined. In the limit of infinitesimal reaction rate (reaction-controlled limit), we solve the dimer-dimer surface reaction model (or voter model) exactly in arbitrary dimension DD. The density of reactive interfaces is found to exhibit a power law decay for D<2D<2 and a slow logarithmic decay in two dimensions. We discuss the relevance of these results for the monomer-monomer surface reaction model.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9508123,
  title  = {Exact Results for Kinetics of Catalytic Reactions},
  author = {L. Frachebourg and P. L. Krapivsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9508123},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, RevTeX, no figures