Diffusion-limited Reactions of hard-core Particles in one-dimension

Abstract

We investigate three different methods to tackle the problem of diffusion-limited reactions (annihilation) of hard-core classical particles in one dimension. We first extend an approach devised by Lushnikov and calculate for a single species the asymptotic long-time and/or large distance behavior of the two-point correlation function. Based on a work by Grynberg et al., which was developed to treat stochastic adsorption-desorption models, we provide in a second step the exact two-point correlation function (both for one and two-time) of Lushnikov's model. We then propose a new formulation of the problem in terms of path integrals for pseudo-fermions. This formalism can be used to advantage in the multi-species case, specially when applying perturbative renormalization group techniques.