Exact solution of the area reactivity model of an isolated pair

Abstract

We investigate the reversible diffusion-influenced reaction of an isolated pair in two space dimensions in the context of the area reactivity model. We compute the exact Green's function in the Laplace domain for the initially unbound molecule. Furthermore, we calculate the exact expression for the Green's function in the time domain by inverting the Laplace transform via the Bromwich contour integral. The obtained results should be useful for comparing the behavior of the area reactivity model with more conventional models based on contact reactivity.