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A model of linear chain submonolayer structures. Application to Li/W(112) and Li/Mo(112)

mtrl-th 2009-10-28 v1 Materials Science

Abstract

We propose a lattice gas model to account for linear chain structures adsorbed on (112) faces of W and Mo. The model includes a dipole-dipole interaction as well as a long-ranged indirect interaction. We have explicitly demonstrated that the periodic ground states depend on a competition between dipole-dipole and indirect interaction. The effect of temperature is studied within the molecular-field approximation. The numerical results show that for dipole-dipole interaction only, all long periodic linear chain phases are suppressed to low temperatures. However, when the long-range indirect interaction becomes important, the long-periodic linear chain phases start to fill up the phase diagram and develop a high thermal stability. Model parameters are chosen to reconstruct a sequence of long-periodic phases as observed experimentally for Li/Mo(112) and Li/W(112).

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@article{arxiv.mtrl-th/9511005,
  title  = {A model of linear chain submonolayer structures. Application to Li/W(112) and Li/Mo(112)},
  author = {F. Bagehorn and J. Lorenc and Cz. Oleksy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:mtrl-th/9511005},
  year   = {2009}
}

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RevTeX 9 pages + 5 Postscript figures (included), uses newdoc.sty (included), to be published in Surface Science