Strong bonds and far-from-equilibrium conditions minimize errors in lattice-gas growth
Statistical Mechanics
2017-08-07 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
We use computer simulation to study the layer-by-layer growth of particle structures in a lattice gas, taking the number of incorporated vacancies as a measure of the quality of the grown structure. By exploiting a dynamic scaling relation between structure quality in and out of equilibrium, we determine that the best quality of structure is obtained, for fixed observation time, with strong interactions and far-from-equilibrium growth conditions. This result contrasts with the usual assumption that weak interactions and mild nonequilibrium conditions are the best way to minimize errors during assembly.
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@article{arxiv.1708.01564,
title = {Strong bonds and far-from-equilibrium conditions minimize errors in lattice-gas growth},
author = {Stephen Whitelam},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.01564},
year = {2017}
}