Bunching Transitions on Vicinal Surfaces and Quantum N-mers

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1998-08-27

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9808307v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3475 (1998).

Physics

Condensed Matter

5 pages, RevTex; to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.3475

We study vicinal crystal surfaces with the terrace-step-kink model on a discrete lattice. Including both a short-ranged attractive interaction and a long-ranged repulsive interaction arising from elastic forces, we discover a series of phases in which steps coalesce into bunches of n steps each. The value of n varies with temperature and the ratio of short to long range interaction strengths. We propose that the bunch phases have been observed in very recent experiments on Si surfaces. Within the context of a mapping of the model to a system of bosons on a 1D lattice, the bunch phases appear as quantum n-mers.

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