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Devil’s staircase behavior of a dimer adsorption model

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We have constructed the simple two-dimensional adsorption model with short range non-competing interactions which demonstrates devil’s staircase of phase transitions. The main factor which leads to the appearance of infinite amount of ordered structures in our model is two competing forms of adsorption. The ground state properties of the model have been analyzed.

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This work was financially supported by Federal program “Scientific and Scientific-Pedagogical Personnel of Innovative Russia in 2009–2013 years” and Analytical departmental target program “Development of Scientific Potential of Higher Education (2009–2011)”.

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  1. Omsk State Technical University, 644050, Omsk, Russia

    V. F. Fefelov, V. A. Gorbunov, A. V. Myshlyavtsev, M. D. Myshlyavtseva & S. S. Akimenko

  2. Institute of Hydrocarbons Processing SB RAS, 644040, Omsk, Russia

    A. V. Myshlyavtsev

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Fefelov, V.F., Gorbunov, V.A., Myshlyavtsev, A.V. et al. Devil’s staircase behavior of a dimer adsorption model. Adsorption 19, 495–499 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10450-013-9471-1

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