Comment on "Hysteresis phenomena in CO catalytic oxidation system in the presence of inhomogeneities of the catalyst surface".
Scrutinizing the Monte Carlo algorithm, used by D.-Y. Hua and Y.-Q. Ma [Phys. Rev. E 66, 066103 (2002)] in order to simulate the effect of defect sites on bistable kinetics of CO oxidation on single-crystal surfaces, we show that in their study (i) the rules for describing CO adsorption, desorption, and surface diffusion contradict the detailed balance principle and (ii) the ratio of the rates of CO diffusion and reaction between adsorbed CO and O species is opposite compared to that observed in reality.
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