Abstract
The position of a reaction front, propagating into a metastable state, fluctuates because of the shot noise of reactions and diffusion. A recent theory (Meerson et al 2011 Phys. Rev. E 84 011147) gave a closed analytic expression for the front diffusion coefficient in the weak noise limit. Here we test this theory in stochastic simulations involving reacting and diffusing particles on a one-dimensional lattice. We also investigate a noise-induced systematic shift of the front velocity compared to the prediction from the spatially continuous deterministic reaction-diffusion equation.
Original language | American English |
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Article number | 125002 |
Journal | Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical |
Volume | 46 |
Issue number | 12 |
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State | Published - 29 Mar 2013 |