Which mechanism causes anomalous diffusion on crystal surfaces?

💡 Explanation

Adatoms distort the crystal locally causing adatom-induced lattice trapping effects; this hinders expected movement because the adatom is trapped near distortion, therefore producing different than normal or anomalous diffusion, rather than normal phonon or impurity governed behavior.

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