Critical exponents for the irreversible surface reaction A+B-->AB with B desorption on homogeneous and fractal media
Abstract
A model for the surface reaction A+B-->AB with B desorption exhibits a continuous irreversible phase transition from an A-poisoned state to a reactive regime. At criticality, an empty patch embedded in the poisoned state spreads on the sample following a random-walk diffusion behavior. So, a relationship between dynamic exponents of the reaction process, the random-walk exponent, and the fractal dimension of the substrate is conjectured and tested.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- July 1992
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.656
- Bibcode:
- 1992PhRvL..69..656A
- Keywords:
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- 68.35.Rh;
- 82.20.-w;
- 82.65.Jv;
- Phase transitions and critical phenomena;
- Chemical kinetics and dynamics