Thursday, June 14, 2012

1206.2756 (J. -F. Rupprecht et al.)

Kinetics of active surface-mediated diffusion in spherically symmetric
domains
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J. -F. Rupprecht, O. Bénichou, D. S. Grebenkov, R. Voituriez
We present an exact calculation of the mean first-passage time to a target on the surface of a 2D or 3D spherical domain, for a molecule alternating phases of surface diffusion on the domain boundary and phases of bulk diffusion. We generalize the results of [J. Stat. Phys. {\bf 142}, 657 (2011)] and consider a biased diffusion in a general annulus with an arbitrary number of regularly spaced targets on a partially reflecting surface. The presented approach is based on an integral equation which can be solved analytically. Numerically validated approximation schemes, which provide more tractable expressions of the mean first-passage time are also proposed. In the framework of this minimal model of surface-mediated reactions, we show analytically that the mean reaction time can be minimized as a function of the desorption rate from the surface.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.2756

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