Fluctuation-driven heterogeneous chemical processes
We explore a new framework for describing the kinetics of a heterogeneous chemical reaction where two particles of the same chemical species form a reaction product of another chemical species on the surface of a seed particle. Traditional treatments neglect the effect of statistical fluctuations in populations. We employ techniques in a manner analogous to the treatment of quantum systems to develop a stochastic description of processes beyond the mean field approximation.
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