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Monte Carlo simulations of the L10 long-range order relaxation in dimensionally reduced systems

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-11-13 v1 Materials Science

Abstract

Monte Carlo simulations have been performed to investigate the relaxation of the L10 long-range order in dimensionally reduced systems. The effect of the number of (001)-type monatomic layers and of the pair interaction energies on these kinetics has been examined. The vacancy migration energies have been deduced from the Arrhenius plots of the relaxation times. A substantial increase in the migration energy for small film thickness is observed. The results agree with previous Monte Carlo simulations and with recent experimental results in L1_0 thin films and multilayers.

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@article{arxiv.0708.0126,
  title  = {Monte Carlo simulations of the L10 long-range order relaxation in dimensionally reduced systems},
  author = {Mohammed Allalen and Tarik Mehaddene and Hamid Bouzar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.0126},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages, and 7 figures