Non-meanfield deterministic limits in chemical reaction kinetics
Author(s) -
Robert Deville,
Cyrill B. Muratov,
Eric VandenEijnden
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the journal of chemical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.071
H-Index - 357
eISSN - 1089-7690
pISSN - 0021-9606
DOI - 10.1063/1.2217013
Subject(s) - chemical kinetics , kinetics , biochemical engineering , statistical physics , engineering , physics , classical mechanics
A general mechanism is proposed by which small intrinsic fluctuations in asystem far from equilibrium can result in nearly deterministic dynamicalbehaviors which are markedly distinct from those realized in the meanfieldlimit. The mechanism is demonstrated for the kinetic Monte-Carlo version of theSchnakenberg reaction where we identified a scaling limit in which the globaldeterministic bifurcation picture is fundamentally altered by fluctuations.Numerical simulations of the model are found to be in quantitative agreementwith theoretical predictions.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures (submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett.
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