Deposition, diffusion, and nucleation on an interval

DOI10.1214/22-AAP1804zbMATH Open1504.60127arXiv2010.00671MaRDI QIDQ2108910FDOQ2108910

Authors: Nicholas Georgiou, Andrew R. Wade 

Publication date: 20 December 2022

Published in: The Annals of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Motivated by nanoscale growth of ultra-thin films, we study a model of deposition, on an interval substrate, of particles that perform Brownian motions until any two meet, when they nucleate to form a static island, which acts as an absorbing barrier to subsequent particles. This is a continuum version of a lattice model studied in the applied literature. We show that the associated interval-splitting process converges in the sparse deposition limit to a Markovian process (in the vein of Brennan and Durrett) governed by a splitting density with a compact Fourier series expansion but, apparently, no simple closed form. We show that the same splitting density governs the fixed deposition rate, large time asymptotics of the normalized gap distribution, so these asymptotics are independent of deposition rate. The splitting density is derived by solving an exit problem for planar Brownian motion from a right-angled triangle, extending work of Smith and Watson.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.00671

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zbMATH Keywords

aggregationdiffusionnucleationepitaxyadsorptioninterval splittingthin film depositionsubmonolayer growth

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Brownian motions and diffusion theory (population genetics, absorption problems, etc.) (60J70) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Brownian motion (60J65) Continuous-time Markov processes on general state spaces (60J25) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Statistical mechanics of nanostructures and nanoparticles (82D80)

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