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Sungchul Kwon1, S Y Yoon, Yup Kim
1Department of Physics and Research Institute of Basic Sciences, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 130-701, Korea.
Abstract:
We investigate the kinetics of the A + B-->0 reaction with the attractive interaction between opposite species in one spatial dimension. The attractive interaction leads to isotropic diffusions inside segregated single species domains, and accelerates the reactions of opposite species at the domain boundaries. At equal initial densities of and , we analytically and numerically show that the density of particles (rho), the size of domains (l), the distance between the closest neighbor of same species (lAA), and the distance between adjacent opposite species (lAB) scale in time as rho approximately t(-1/3), lAA approximately t(1/3), and l approximately lAB approximately lAB(2/3), respectively. These dynamical exponents define critical behavior distinguished from the class of uniformly driven systems of hard-core particles.
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