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Statistics modification under monomer diffusion

Statistical Mechanics 2021-03-16 v3 Materials Science Probability

Abstract

The diffusion and coalescence of individual atoms on a nanostructured surface are treated in a purely statistical way. From this, analytical formulas are derived which, from a known initial state, give the final cluster size distribution on a surface after the diffusion of all the individual atoms. Unexpectedly, it turns out that these formulas allow obtaining a statistical law giving the size histogram of the clusters when only homogeneous nucleation occurs with a critical germ equal to 2, and in the situation where nucleation starts once the deposition of the atoms is completed.

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@article{arxiv.2012.07636,
  title  = {Statistics modification under monomer diffusion},
  author = {Georges Sitja},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.07636},
  year   = {2021}
}