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Gap-size distribution functions of a random sequential adsorption model of segments on a line

N. A. M. Araújo and A. Cadilhe*

  • GCEP-Centro de Física da Universidade do Minho, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal

  • *Corresponding author. Electronic address: cadilhe@fisica.uminho.pt

Phys. Rev. E 73, 051602 – Published 12 May, 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.73.051602

Abstract

We performed extensive simulations accompanied by a detailed study of a two-segment size random sequential model on the line. We followed the kinetics towards the jamming state, but we paid particular attention to the characterization of the jamming state structure. In particular, we studied the effect of the size ratio on the mean-gap size, the gap-size dispersion, gap-size skewness, and gap-size kurtosis at the jamming state. We also analyzed the above quantities for the four possible segment-to-segment gap types. We ranged the values of the size ratio from one to twenty. In the limit of a size ratio of one, one recovers the classical car-parking problem. We observed that at low size ratios the jamming state is constituted by short streaks of small and large segments, while at high values of the size ratio the jamming state structure is formed by long streaks of small segments separated by a single large segment. This view of the jamming state structure as a function of the size ratio is supported by the various measured quantities. The present work can help provide insight, for example, on how to minimize the interparticle distance or minimize fluctuations around the mean particle-to-particle distance.

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