Title: Domain-walls formation in binary nanoscopic finite systems
Author(s):

	A. Patrykiejew (Department for the Modelling of Physico-Chemical Processes, Faculty of Chemistry, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, 20031 Lublin, Poland) ,
	S. Sokołowski (Department for the Modelling of Physico-Chemical Processes, Faculty of Chemistry, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, 20031 Lublin, Poland)

Using a simple one-dimensional Frenkel-Kontorowa type model, we have demonstrated that finite commensurate chains may undergo the commensurate-incommensurate (C-IC) transition when the chain is contaminated by isolated impurities attached to the chain ends. Monte Carlo (MC) simulation has shown that the same phenomenon appears in two-dimensional systems with impurities located at the peripheries of finite commensurate clusters.

Key words: binary mixture, commensurate-incommensurate transitions, Monte Carlo simulation, finite systems, Frenkel-Kontorova model
PACS: 64.70.Rh, 68.55.Ln, 64.60.an

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