Fluctuation-driven heterogeneous chemical processes
Other Condensed Matter
2007-10-31 v1
Abstract
We explore a new framework for describing the kinetics of a heterogeneous chemical reaction where two particles of the same chemical species form a reaction product of another chemical species on the surface of a seed particle. Traditional treatments neglect the effect of statistical fluctuations in populations. We employ techniques in a manner analogous to the treatment of quantum systems to develop a stochastic description of processes beyond the mean field approximation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0710.5540,
title = {Fluctuation-driven heterogeneous chemical processes},
author = {Christiane M. Losert-Valiente Kroon and Ian J. Ford},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.5540},
year = {2007}
}
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23 pages, 19 figures