Atomic hopping

Atoms hop randomly from site to site (although more hop "forwards" than "backwards")... 

This rate law corresponds to an atom jumping out of a potential well by completely breaking i lateral bonds. The transition rate is independent of the energy of the final configuration, i.e, contains no information about the site to which the atom hops, see Figure 1(a). One sets... 

A i-kinetics is contrasted with i-kinetics in that the activation barrier contains information about both the initial and final state when the atom hops. One way to implement this is shown in Figure 1 (b). In this case, we can write the kinetic law in a form analogous to hopping probabilities in the Metropolis algorithm ... 

An observation of motion of single atoms and single atomic clusters with STEM was reported by Isaacson et al,192 They observed atomic jumps of single uranium atoms on a very thin carbon film of —15 A thickness or less. Coupled motion of two to three atoms could also be seen. As the temperature of the thin film could not be controlled, no Arrhenius plot could be obtained. Instead, the Debye frequency , kTIh, was used to calculate the activation energy of surface diffusion, as is also sometimes done in field ion microscopy. That the atomic jumps were not induced by electron bombardment was checked by observing the atomic hopping frequencies as a function of the electron beam intensity. 

The transition state for an atom hopping on a metal surface [28] can have a lower coordination number than the initial state, and then GGA barrier heights are lower (and presumably again more correct) than LSD barriers. 

Pulling the tip starts from directly above (no Fn component) and moves over the atom in direction of the planned lateral movement. Under the increasing Fn component of the force, the atom hops into the next energetically favored position on the substrate. At this point, the STM feedback system retracts the tip in order to... 

In the context of fig. 7.21 if we consider the process of atomic hopping from left to right, the numerator requires us to evaluate properties at the saddle point, while the denominator demands an analysis of the properties of the well to the left of the saddle point. 

Due to the large mass of the oxygen and other atoms in the molecule relative to that of the H atom, these heavy atoms can not adjust their positions following the H-atom hopping at a large frequency, ca. 10 ° Hz, and assume average positions. 

A atoms hop in pure A, but it applies equally to compounds M X j where the species M and X form two independent sublattices. 

ZambelH, T, Trost, J., WintterHn, J., Ertl, G. Diffusion and atomic hopping of N atoms on Ru(OOOl) studied by scanning tunneling microscopy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 1996, 76, 795. 

Create a look-up table of atom hop positions for the metal atoms. One approach is to extend the crystal lattice throughout the space of the alloy sample and assume that atom hops are to vacant nearest-neighbor positions in the crystal structure. Look-up tables speed up the main program because they do not have to be recalculated for each iteration. 

Figure 8. Variation of energy with distance as a magnesinm atom hops to an adjacent vacant site in MgO.

Examining atomic plane 1 in the figure, we assume that the flux of gray atoms hopping in the forward direction (and therefore through plane A) is simply determined by the number (concentration) of gray atoms available to hop times the hopping rate ... 

Similarly, the flux of gray atoms hopping from plane 2 backward through plane A will be given by... 

I- H2O has been investigated by spectroscopic [37, 41,42] and theoretical [38, 43, 44] methods. Dynamical simulations of the dehydration reaction find two mechanisms to be operative in this reaction a fast loss of H2O initiated by hydrogen atom hopping, similar to that found following nitric acid excitation, and a slower dissociation, occurring after full or partial IVR [43,45]. Based on these mechanisms and rates, the dehydration of sulfuric acid is very effective under conditions of the upper stratosphere and mesosphere [46]. The rate of dehydration thus obtained is... 

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