Tracer diffusion of dimers on correlated heterogeneous surfaces

The diffusion of a single dimer adsorbed on highly correlated heterogeneous substrates is studied through Monte Carlo simulations. The topography has been characterized by patches of weak and strong adsorbing sites, arranged in a chessboard-like ordered structure. The time behavior of the mean-square displacement of the dimer is analyzed for different temperatures and patch size. Based on this analysis, a possible method for the characterization of the correlated heterogeneous topography from dimer diffusion measurements is discussed.