An Introduction to Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations of Surface Reactions

Kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC) simulations still represent a quite new area of research, with a rapidly growing number of publications. Broadly speaking, kMC can be applied to any system describable as a set of minima of a potential-energy surface, the evolution of which will then be regarded as hops from one minimum to a neighboring one. The hops in kMC are modeled as shastic processes and the algorithms use random numbers to determine at which times the hops occur and to which neighboring mini...