Physics – Chemical Physics
Scientific paper
2007-03-29
Physics
Chemical Physics
18 pages, 6 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.76.035443
We studied the step dynamics during crystal sublimation and growth in the limit of fast surface diffusion and slow kinetics of atom attachment-detachment at the steps. For this limit we formulate a model free of the quasi-static approximation in the calculation of the adatom concentration on the terraces at the crystal surface. Such a model provides a relatively simple way to study the linear stability of a step train in a presence of step-step repulsion and an absence of destabilizing factors (as Schwoebel effect, surface electromigration etc.). The central result is that a critical velocity of the steps in the train exists which separates the stability and instability regimes. When the step velocity exceeds its critical value the plot of these trajectories manifests clear space and time periodicity (step density compression waves propagate on the vicinal surface). This ordered motion of the steps is preceded by a relatively short transition period of disordered step dynamics.
Ranguelov Bogdan
Stoyanov Stoyan
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