Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2009-12-14
Phys. Rev. B 82, 115446 (2010)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
11 pages, 6 figures; some typos corrected
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.82.115446
Numerically efficient transfer matrix technique for studying statistics of coherent adsorbates on small nanotubes has been developed. In the framework of a realistic microscopic model fitted to the data of ab initio calculations taken from literature sources, the ordering of potassium adsorbate on (6,0) single-walled carbon nanotube has been studied. Special attention has been payed to the phase transition-like abrupt changes seen in the adsorption isotherms at low temperature. It has been found that the behavior during the transitions conforms with the universality hypothesis of the theory of critical phenomena and is qualitatively the same as in the one dimensional Ising model. Quantitatively the critical behavior can be fully described by two parameters. Their qualitative connection with the properties of interphase boundaries is suggested but further research is needed to develop a quantitative theory.
Dreysse H.
Tokar V. I.
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