The Gibbs-Thomson formula at small island sizes - corrections for high vapour densities

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1996-05-22

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9605142v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

27 pages including 7 figures, tarred, gzipped and uuencoded. Prepared using revtex and espf.sty. To appear in Phys. Rev. B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.54.8899

In this paper we report simulation studies of equilibrium features, namely circular islands on model surfaces, using Monte-Carlo methods. In particular, we are interested in studying the relationship between the density of vapour around a curved island and its curvature-the Gibbs-Thomson formula. Numerical simulations of a lattice gas model, performed for various sizes of islands, don't fit very well to the Gibbs-Thomson formula. We show how corrections to this form arise at high vapour densities, wherein a knowledge of the exact equation of state (as opposed to the ideal gas approximation) is necessary to predict this relationship. Exploiting a mapping of the lattice gas to the Ising model one can compute the corrections to the Gibbs-Thomson formula using high field series expansions. We also investigate finite size effects on the stability of the islands both theoretically and through simulations. Finally the simulations are used to study the microscopic origins of the Gibbs-Thomson formula. A heuristic argument is suggested in which it is partially attributed to geometric constraints on the island edge.

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