Jamming coverage in competitive random sequential adsorption of a binary mixture

Abstract

We propose a generalized car parking problem where cars of two different sizes are sequentially parked on a line with a given probability q. The free parameter q interpolates between the classical car parking problem of only one car size and the competitive random sequential adsorption (CRSA) of a binary mixture. We give an exact solution to the CRSA rate equations and find that the final coverage, the jamming limit of the line, is always larger for a binary mixture than for the unisized case. The analytical results are in good agreement with our direct numerical simulations of the problem.