Abstract
We use Langevin dynamics simulations to study the growth kinetics and the steady-state properties of condensed clusters in a dilute two-dimensional system of particles that are all different (APD) in the sense that each particle is characterized by a randomly chosen interaction parameter. The growth exponents, the transition temperatures, and the steady-state properties of the clusters and of the surrounding gas phase are obtained and compared with those of one-component systems. We investigate the fractionation phenomenon, i.e., how particles of different identities are distributed between the coexisting mother (gas) and daughter (clusters) phases. We study the local organization of particles inside clusters, according to their identity - neighbourhood identity ordering (NIO) - and compare the results with those of previous studies of NIO in dense APD systems.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 104304 |
| Pages (from-to) | 104304 |
| Journal | Journal of Chemical Physics |
| Volume | 148 |
| Issue number | 10 |
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| State | Published - 14 Mar 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by a grant from the Israel Science Foundation and by the Israeli Centers for Research Excellence (I-CORE). Y.R. would like to acknowledge the hospitality of NYU Shanghai and Rockefeller University where part of this work was done.
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