February 10 2003


Movement of surface atoms


Evaluation of diffusion coefficients from MSD

Diffusion coefficients were evaluated by fit the plots of MSD to a straight line centered at (0,0). The first 2500ps data have been discarded.


Number of moved atoms

The positions of atoms have been tracked. Whenever an atom has an MSD larger than 4.5*4.5 Angstrom^2, it is marked as "moved".


Distribution of number of atoms by MSD (surface atoms only)

The mean square displacements of two configurations with time interval of 357.2ps (10 configurations) or 714.4ps (20 configurations) have been calculated and accumulated (46 or 23 groups of independent data) for surface atoms. The histograms (1000 bins) of number of atoms according to MSD have been normalized. The plots are only part of the whole histograms.


MSD per surface atom

MSD for each surface atom with time interval of 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 configurations (35.72ps per configuration) have been calculated and averaged.