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Solitonic-exchange mechanism of surface~diffusion
We study surface diffusion in the framework of a generalized
Frenkel-Kontorova model with a nonconvex transverse degree of freedom. The
model describes a lattice of atoms with a given concentration interacting by
Morse-type forces, the lattice being subjected to a two-dimensional substrate
potential which is periodic in one direction and nonconvex (Morse) in the
transverse direction. The results are used to describe the complicated
exchange-mediated diffusion mechanism recently observed in MD simulations [J.E.
Black and Zeng-Ju Tian, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 71}, 2445-2448(1993)].Comment: 22 Revtex pages, 9 figures to appear in Phys. Rev.
Nanocrystal Diffusion in a Liquid Thin Film Observed by in Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy
Dynamics of ordering processes in annealed dilute systems: Island formation, vacancies at domain boundaries, and compactification
Kinetics of unusual photoinduced currents in the solid state of some ferrocene derivatives
A vitrifying structure transition in the Dy/Mo(112) adsorption system
Annealing-driven irreversible structural transitions are studied by low-energy electron diffraction in submonolayer Dy films adsorbed on the Mo(112) surface. In a wide coverage range θ>0.07, Dy overlayers deposited at low temperatures (T≈100 K) are ordered and keep their structure upon annealing up to 350–600 K. Near θ=0.68, the overlayers are stable to high-temperature annealing (Ta=1000 K) as well, whereas the denser films are metastable and transform to more stable ordered structures. An unusual annealing effect is found for θ<0.58: the initially ordered metastable phases are replaced by phases having no extended order, which are assumed to be two-dimensional glasses. © 2001 American Institute of Physics
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