From Microscopic Interactions to Macroscopic Laws of Cluster Evolution
- 14 February 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 84 (7) , 1511-1514
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.84.1511
Abstract
We derive macroscopic governing laws of growth velocity, surface tension, mobility, critical nucleus size, and morphological evolution of clusters, from microscopic scale master equations for a prototype surface reaction system with long range adsorbate-adsorbate interactions.Keywords
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