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Octob er Collective Eects in Random Sequential Adsorption of Diusing Hard Squares JianSheng Wang Departmen t of Physics Hong Kong Baptist College Waterlo o Road Ko wlo on Hong Kong Peter Nielaba  Institut f ur Physik Universitat Mainz Staudingerweg D Mainz Germany Vladimir Privman Departmen t of Physics Clarkson University Potsdam New York USA ABSTRACT We study by Monte Carlo computer simulations random sequential adsorption RSA with diusional relaxation of lattice hard squares in two dimensions While for RSA without diusion the coverage approaches its maximum jamming value large time fractional coverage exp onentially added diusion allows the dep osition pro cess to pro ceed to the full coverage The approach to the full coverage is consistent with the t = p ower law reminiscent of the equilibrium cluster coarsening in mo dels with nonconserved orderparameter dynamics PACS numb ers Jy s i Random sequential adsorption RSA mo dels have b een studied extensively due to their relevance to dep osition pro cesses on surfaces The dep ositing particles are rep resented by hardcore extended ob jects they are not allowed to overlap In monolayer dep osition of colloidal particles and macromolecules one can further assume that the adhesion pro cess is irreversible Once a particle is in place its relaxation on the surface pro ceeds on time scales much larger than the dep osition pro cess However recent exp eriments on protein adhesion at surfaces indicate that in these systems eects of surface relaxation presumably due to diu