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Turing's mechanism is often invoked to explain periodic patterns in nature, although direct experimental support is scarce. Turing patterns form in reaction-diffusion systems when the activating species diffuse much slower than the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-03-15 Lucas Menou , Chengjie Luo , David Zwicker

In the presence of a chemically active particle, a nearby chemically inert particle can respond to a concentration gradient and move by diffusiophoresis. The nature of the motion is studied for two cases: first, a fixed reactive sphere and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-06-25 Shang Yik Reigh , Prabha Chuphal , Snigdha Thakur , Raymond Kapral

We study diffusion-controlled processes in nonequilibrium steady states, where standard rate theory assumptions break down. Using transition path theory, we generalize the relations between reactive probability fluxes and measures of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Seokjin Moon , David T. Limmer

The reaction-diffusion master equation is a stochastic model often utilized in the study of biochemical reaction networks in living cells. It is applied when the spatial distribution of molecules is important to the dynamics of the system.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Stefan Hellander , Linda Petzold

We analyse a dynamic control problem for scalar reaction-diffusion equations, focusing on the emulation of pattern formation through the selection of appropriate active controls. While boundary controls alone prove inadequate for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-26 Domènec Ruiz-Balet , Enrique Zuazua

We expand on a previous study of fronts in finite particle number reaction-diffusion systems in the presence of a reaction rate gradient in the direction of the front motion. We study the system via reaction-diffusion equations, using the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Elisheva Cohen , David A. Kessler , Herbert Levine

Phase-separated liquid condensates can spatially organize and thereby regulate chemical processes. However, the physicochemical mechanisms underlying such regulation remain elusive as the intramolecular interactions responsible for phase…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-11 Sudarshana Laha , Jonathan Bauermann , Frank Jülicher , Thomas C. T. Michaels , Christoph A. Weber

We study diffusion of particles on the surface of a sphere toward a partially reactive circular target with partly reversible binding kinetics. We solve the coupled diffusion-reaction equations and obtain the exact expressions for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-05 Denis S. Grebenkov

The interactions between diffusing molecules and membrane-bound receptors drive numerous cellular processes. In this work, we develop a spatial model of molecular interactions with membrane receptors by homogenizing the cell membrane and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-24 Anil Cengiz , Sean D Lawley

We study fluctuation effects in a two species reaction-diffusion system, with three competing reactions $A+A\rightarrow\emptyset$, $B+B\rightarrow\emptyset$, and $A+B\rightarrow\emptyset$. Asymptotic density decay rates are calculated for…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Martin Howard

We propose an analytical method for solving the problem of barrierless reactions in solution, modeled by a particle undergoing diffusive motion under the influence of both reactant and product potentials. The coupling between these two…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Aniruddha Chakraborty

The master equation of one-dimensional three-species reaction-diffusion processes is mapped onto an imaginary-time Schr\"odinger equation. In many cases the Hamiltonian obtained is that of an integrable quantum chain. Within this approach…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Silvio R. Dahmen

Reaction-diffusion processes are the foundational model for a diverse range of complex systems, ranging from biochemical reactions to social agent-based phenomena. The underlying dynamics of these systems occur at the individual…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-15 Mauricio J. del Razo , Margarita Kostré

Many biological activities are induced by cellular chemical reactions of diffusing reactants. The dynamics of such systems can be captured by stochastic reaction networks. A recent numerical study has shown that diffusion can significantly…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-01-18 Tan Van Vu , Yoshihiko Hasegawa

We study turbulent diffusion of chemically reacting gaseous admixtures in a developed turbulence. In our previous study [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 80}, 69 (1998)] using a path-integral approach for a delta-correlated in time random velocity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-11-19 Tov Elperin , Nathan Kleeorin , Michael Liberman , Igor Rogachevskii

Stochastic reaction-diffusion models have become an important tool in studying how both noise in the chemical reaction process and the spatial movement of molecules influences the behavior of biological systems. There are two primary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-23 Ikemefuna C. Agbanusi , Samuel A. Isaacson

We study a system of diffusing point particles in which any triplet of particles reacts and is removed from the system when the relative proximity of the constituent particles satisfies a predefined condition. Proximity-based reaction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Taylor Kearney , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier , Mark B. Flegg

The fast-reaction limit for reaction--diffusion systems modelling predator--prey interactions is investigated. In the considered model, predators exist in two possible states, namely searching and handling. The switching rate between these…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-18 Cinzia Soresina , Quoc Bao Tang , Bao Ngoc Tran

A molecule traveling in a realistic propagation environment can experience stochastic interactions with other molecules and the environment boundary. The statistical behavior of some isolated phenomena, such as dilute unbounded molecular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Adam Noel , Karen C. Cheung , Robert Schober

Reaction-diffusion models have been used over decades to study biological systems. In this context, evolution equations for probability distribution functions and the associated stochastic differential equations have nowadays become…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-09 C. Escudero , S. B. Yuste , E. Abad , F. Le Vot