Campus Units

Mathematics, Ames Laboratory

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-2000

Journal or Book Title

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volume

113

Issue

22

First Page

10252

Last Page

10264

DOI

10.1063/1.1322356

Abstract

To elucidate surface diffusion in the presence of a coadsorbate with superlattice ordering, we consider particle hopping on a square lattice with some fraction, u B , of quenched blocking sites arranged with checkerboard or c(232) ordering. Behavior for low u B corresponds to diffusion around isolated obstacles, and can be described by exact density expansions. Behavior for high u B corresponds to percolative diffusion along ~or sometimes away from! domain boundaries. The connectivity of these domain boundaries is closely related to the existence of symmetry breaking @i.e., long-range c(232) order# in the distribution of blocking sites. In some cases, symmetry breaking induces critical behavior for diffusive transport which is fundamentally different from that for the conventional ‘‘ant in the labyrinth’’ problem. Our results apply to recently developed models for CO oxidation, where CO~ads! diffuses rapidly through coadsorbed relatively immobile c(2 32)-O~ads!. The characterization of CO diffusion in these systems is key to describing spatial pattern formation.

Comments

The following article appeared in Journal of Chemical Physics 113, 22 (2000): 10252 and may be found at doi: 10.1063/1.1322356.

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