On the proximity relation between two surface-melted clusters involved in inter-cluster mass-transfer
Chemical Physics
2009-11-07 v1 Atomic and Molecular Clusters
Abstract
We explore the way free particles produced by dissociating ``particle-hole pairs'' on a surface-melted cluster can be transferred to a second, nearby surface-melted cluster. This mass transport is based on an inter-cluster direct transfer mechanism of the particles. We found that in this particular case one cluster may grow at the expense of another, obeying a temporal power law with the exponent 1/2 for the average radius R = const t^{1/2}. The change from the expected universal power law R = const t^{1/3} is a consequence of the proximity relation between these two clusters which lead to enhance the effective transport rates.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0105073,
title = {On the proximity relation between two surface-melted clusters involved in inter-cluster mass-transfer},
author = {Florin Despa and R. Stephen Berry},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0105073},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages, 1 fig., Eur. Phys. J. D - to appear