Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium States of One-Dimensional Atomic Structures

Non-equilibrium island size distribution in one dimension

“…Dependence of number of islands on temperature is shown in figure 1(bottom). The number of islands increases with increasing temperature and becomes constant at high 4) with E b = 60 meV [19], N = 5816 and M = 1811 [3] for different temperatures. Bottom: dependence of number of islands K on temperature.…”

“…The second one is based on the rate equations [17]. And the third one is based on kinetic Monte Carlo simulations [11,12,[18][19][20][21]. However, the most popular approach is to use a combination of rate equations with kinetic Monte Carlo simulations and then to compare their results [13,14,[22][23][24][25][26][27].…”

“…Figure 1. Top: equilibrium island size distribution equation (4) with E b = 60 meV[19], N = 5816 and M = 1811[3] for different temperatures. Bottom: dependence of number of islands K on temperature.…”

“…Bottom:The relative lifetime τ w /τ + as a function of the length of a gap for three different temperatures. Diffusion barriers ΔE 1 , ΔE 2 , ΔE 3 were taken from the work[19].…”