We explore a new framework for describing the kinetics of simple chemical reactions which can also be applied to describe the kinetics of heterogeneous nucleation. 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.
Keywords Nucleation, fundamental aerosol physics, aerosol chemistry, Monte Carlo simulations
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Kroon, C.M.LV., Ford, I.J. (2007). Stochastic Birth and Death Equations to Treat Chemistry and Nucleation in Small Systems. In: O'Dowd, C.D., Wagner, P.E. (eds) Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6475-3_68
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