Homogenization of composite vicinal surfaces: evolution laws in 1+1 dimensions

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2012.03.007MaRDI QIDQ449059zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dionisios Margetis, Kanna Nakamura

Publication date 11 September 2012

Published in Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physd.2012.03.007

zbMATH Keywords

Burton-Cabrera-Frank (BCF) modelcrystal surfacediffusionhomogenization methodline defectsmacroscopic limitmultiscale expansionnonlinear evolution lawsrelaxation laws

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Thin films (74K35) Crystals in solids (74N05) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Dynamics of random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C41) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70) Statistical mechanics of crystals (82D25)

Review text

The main goal of the paper is to elucidate how the microscale dynamics of constituent atom defects influences crystal surface (and surface structures) evolution at large scales. In particular, in order to find the macroscale description of surface relaxation that is consistent with the microstructure inhomogeneities of a composite stepped surface, the theory of singular perturbations has been invoked, i.e., that of a classical homogenization and multiscale expansions in one space dimension. The Fick law for the surface diffusion is established, the role of time scales and the mesoscale are quantified. An analysis is formal, leaving open questions. For example, the continuum limit is assumed to exist, its very existence has not been put under scrutiny. Certain regularity assumptions are known not to obeyed by some coefficients of the diffusion equation, leaving the description mathematically inadequate. The main goal of the authors was rather to give some intuition and guidance for mathematically more rigorous analysis, by exemplifying physical assumptions and the core elements of the homogenization process.

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