Abstract
We explore the way free particles produced by dissociating "particle-hole pairs" on a surface-melted cluster can be transferred to a second, nearby surface-melted cluster. This mass transport is based on an inter-cluster direct transfer mechanism of the particles. We found that in this particular case one cluster may grow at the expense of another, obeying a temporal power law with the exponent 1/2 for the average radius (R ∼ t1/2). The change from the expected universal power law (R ∼ t1/3) is a consequence of the proximity relation between these two clusters which lead to enhance the effective transport rates.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 261-264 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | European Physical Journal D |
Volume | 8 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 2001 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics