Many-particle diffusion in continuum: Inluence of a periodic surface potential

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2002

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Department of Applied Physics

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Journal of Chemical Physics, Volume 116, issue 17, pp. 7666-7672

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We study the diffusion of Brownian particles with a short-range repulsion on a surface with a periodic potential through molecular dynamics simulations and theoretical arguments. We concentrate on the behavior of the tracer and collective diffusion coefficients DT(θ) and DC(θ), respectively, as a function of the surface coverage θ. In the high friction regime we find that both coefficients are well approximated by the Langmuir lattice-gas results for up to θ≈0.7 in the limit of a strongly binding surface potential. In particular, the static compressibility factor within DC(θ) is very accurately given by the Langmuir formula for 0⩽θ⩽1. For higher densities, both DT(θ) and DC(θ)show an intermediate maximum which increases with the strength of the potential amplitude. In the low friction regime we find that long jumps enhance blocking and DT(θ) decreases more rapidly for submonolayer coverages. However, for higher densities DT(θ)/DT(0) is almost independent of friction as long jumps are effectively suppressed by frequent interparticle collisions. We also study the role of memory effects for many-particle diffusion.

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brownian motion, computer simulations, surface diffusion

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10.1063/1.1467908

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Lahtinen, J M, Masin, M, Laurila, T, Ala-Nissilä, T & Chvoj, Z 2002, 'Many-particle diffusion in continuum: Inluence of a periodic surface potential', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 116, no. 17, pp. 7666-7672. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1467908

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