Statistical Mechanics of the Vicinal Surfaces with Adsorption

Abstract

We study the vicinal surface with adsorption below the roughening temperature, using the restricted solid-on-solid model coupled with the Ising model. By the product-wavefunction renormalization group method, we calculate the surface gradient $p$ and the adsorption coverage $\Theta$ as a function of the Andreev field $\eta$ which makes surface tilt. Combining Monte Carlo calculations, we show that there emerges effective attraction between the steps. This attractive interaction leads to instability against step bunching.

10 pages, 4 figures, ISSI PDSC-2000, submitted to Surf. Sci. RevTeX 3.1 preprint style

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