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Fractal growth in the presence of a surface force field

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We numerically simulate the dynamics of atomic clusters aggregation deposited on a surface interacting with the growing island. We make use of the well-known DLA model but replace the underlying diffusion equation by the Smoluchowski equation which results in a drifted DLA model and anisotropic jump probabilities. The shape of the structures resulting from their aggregation-limited random walk is affected by the presence of a Laplacian potential due to, for instance, the surface stress field. We characterize the morphologies we obtain by their Hausdorff fractal dimension as well as the so-called external fractal dimension. We compare our results to previously published experimental results for antimony and silver clusters deposited onto graphite surface.

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Carlier, F., Brion, E. & Akulin, V.M. Fractal growth in the presence of a surface force field. Eur. Phys. J. B 85, 152 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2012-20756-4

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