Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2001-09-17
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
22 pages, RevTeX, to appear in Phys. Rev. E, 6 figures (eps format) are available at http://www.physik.tu-muenchen.de/~natalie
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.65.016121
We present lattice-gas modeling of the steady-state behavior in CO oxidation on the facets of nanoscale metal clusters, with coupling via inter-facet CO diffusion. The model incorporates the key aspects of reaction process, such as rapid CO mobility within each facet, and strong nearest-neighbor repulsion between adsorbed O. The former justifies our use a "hybrid" simulation approach treating the CO coverage as a mean-field parameter. For an isolated facet, there is one bistable region where the system can exist in either a reactive state (with high oxygen coverage) or a (nearly CO-poisoned) inactive state. Diffusion between two facets is shown to induce complex multistability in the steady states of the system. The bifurcation diagram exhibits two regions with bistabilities due to the difference between adsorption properties of the facets. We explore the role of enhanced fluctuations in the proximity of a cusp bifurcation point associated with one facet in producing transitions between stable states on that facet, as well as their influence on fluctuations on the other facet. The results are expected to shed more light on the reaction kinetics for supported catalysts.
Evans John W.
Imbihl R.
Liu Da-Jiang
Pavlenko Natalia
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