Spontaneous repulsion in the A+B→0 reaction on coupled networks

Abstract

We study the transient dynamics of an A+B→0 process on a pair of randomly coupled networks, where reactants are initially separated. We find that, for sufficiently small fractions q of cross couplings, the concentration of A (or B) particles decays linearly in a first stage and crosses over to a second linear decrease at a mixing time t_{x}. By numerical and analytical arguments, we show that for symmetric and homogeneous structures t_{x}∝(〈k〉/q)log(〈k〉/q) where 〈k〉 is the mean degree of both networks. Being this behavior is in marked contrast with a purely diffusive process, where the mixing time would go simply like 〈k〉/q, we identify the logarithmic slowing down in t_{x} to be the result of a spontaneous mechanism of repulsion between the reactants A and B due to the interactions taking place at the networks' interface. We show numerically how this spontaneous repulsion effect depends on the topology of the underlying networks.

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