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Long-Time Tails in the Kinetics of Reversible Bimolecular Reactions

Year: 2001

Type: article

Abstract: A new approach is developed to study the relaxation of concentrations to equilibrium in reversible bimolecular reactions. For A+B <==> C, a general analytic expression is derived for the amplitude of the power law (t(-d/2)) asymptotics for arbitrary diffusion coefficients and concentrations of the reactants. Our formalism is based on the analysis of the time correlation functions describing the equilibrium fluctuations of the concentrations. This powerful and simple procedure can be readily used to study other bimolecular reactions such as A+B <==> C+D.

Source: Physical Review Letters

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.86.922

Authors: Irina V. Gopich, Alexander A. Ovchinnikov, Attila Szabo

Institutions: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems

Language: English

Topic: Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions

Subfield: Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

Field: Chemistry

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1965027207

FWCI: 3.81

Cites: 13

Cited by: 49

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