Spatiotemporal oscillations and clustering in the Ziff-Gulari-Barshad model with surface reconstruction.
We study the dynamics of the Ziff-Gulari-Barshad (ZGB) model on square (sq) and hexagonal-honeycomb (hex) lattices and when surface restructuring is introduced. We show that the ZGB model exhibits nonequilibrium phase transitions on the hex lattice similar to the ones already observed on the sq lattice, but the critical values of the kinetic parameters depend crucially on the substrate type. If surface reconstruction (sq<-->hex) is assumed for high lattice coverage of one of the reactive species then persistent spatiotemporal oscillations and clustering of homologous species are observed for kinetic parameter values 0.348<k1<0.393.
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Institute of Physical Chemistry, National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos," 15310 Athens, Greece.
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