Abstract

An analytical model for one-dimensional islands growth was developed being inspired by experiments on growth of metallic atomic chains. On the basis of reported observations and simulations we considered the case of heterogeneous nucleation with linear on size rates for growth and decay. In this case the exact solution of the system of rate equation leads to Polya distribution for lengths of chains and corresponding scaling behaviour. These analytically computed dependences demonstrated good matching with experimental results.

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