Modeling one-dimensional island growth with mass-dependent detachment rates

Details Modeling one-dimensional island growth with mass-dependent detachment rates Modeling one-dimensional island growth with mass-dependent detachment rates

2008-01-14

arxiv.org/abs/0801.2182v1

Published in Phys. Rev. B 77, 035406 (2008)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

16 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.77.035406

We study one-dimensional models of particle diffusion and attachment/detachment from islands where the detachment rates gamma(m) of particles at the cluster edges increase with cluster mass m. They are expected to mimic the effects of lattice mismatch with the substrate and/or long-range repulsive interactions that work against the formation of long islands. Short-range attraction is represented by an overall factor epsilon<<1 in the detachment rates relatively to isolated particle hopping rates [epsilon ~ exp(-E/T), with binding energy E and temperature T]. We consider various gamma(m), from rapidly increasing forms such as gamma(m) ~ m to slowly increasing ones, such as gamma(m) ~ [m/(m+1)]^b. A mapping onto a column problem shows that these systems are zero-range processes, whose steady states properties are exactly calculated under the assumption of independent column heights in the Master equation. Simulation provides island size distributions which confirm analytic reductions and are useful whenever the analytical tools cannot provide results in closed form. The shape of island size distributions can be changed from monomodal to monotonically decreasing by tuning the temperature or changing the particle density rho. Small values of the scaling variable X=epsilon^{-1}rho/(1-rho) favour the monotonically decreasing ones. However, for large X, rapidly increasing gamma(m) lead to distributions with peaks very close to and rapidly decreasing tails, while slowly increasing gamma(m) provide peaks close to /2$ and fat right tails.

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