Trapping of single diffusing particles by a circular disk on a reflecting flat surface. Absorbing hemisphere approximation
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Leonardo Dagdug, Alexander M. Berezhkovskii, Sergey M. Bezrukov
Recent progress in biophysics (for example, in studies of chemical sensing and spatiotemporal cell-signaling) poses new challenges to statistical theory of trapping of single diffusing particles. Here we deal with one of them, namely, trapping kinetics of single particles diffusing in a half-space bounded by a reflecting flat surface containing an absorbing circular disk. This trapping problem is essentially two-dimensional and the question of the angular dependence of the kinetics on the particle starting point is highly nontrivial. We propose an approximate approach to the problem that replaces the absorbing disk by an absorbing hemisphere of a properly chosen radius. This replacement makes the problem angular-independent and essentially one-dimensional. After the replacement one can find an exact solution for the particle propagator (Green's function) that allows one to completely characterize the kinetics. Extensive testing of the theoretical predictions based on the absorbing hemisphere approximation against three-dimensional Brownian dynamics simulations shows excellent agreement between the analytical and simulation results when the particle starts sufficiently far away from the disk. Our approach fails and the angular dependence of the kinetics is important when the distance of the particle starting point from the disk center is comparable with the disk radius. However, even when the initial distance is only two disk radii, the maximum relative error of the theoretical predictions is about 10%. The relative error rapidly decreases as the initial distance increases.
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