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M. J. CONDENSED MATTER VOLUME 5, NUMBER 1 January 2004 Study of adatoms diffusion through current density fluctuation functions a a a a b c K. Saadouni , A. Hader , Y. Boughaleb , R. Nassif , and A. Ayadi a Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Université Hassan II- Mohammadia Faculté des Sciences Ben M’sik Casablanca- Morocco b Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Université Chouaib Doukkali Faculté des Sciences El Jadida- Morocco C Ecole nationale des Sciences appliquées Université Cadi Ayyad Marrakech- Morocco In this work, we investigate the diffusion process by using a mean field lattice gas dynamical model. The temporal correlation function of the current density is calculated in a probe area of radius R. The latter is considered to test if the developed formulation can be applied to reproduce STM experiments. The obtained results concerning the effective diffusion coefficient exhibit clearly the order disorder transition effect translated by two minima appearing respectively at p=1/3 and p=2/3. The effect of the ordering phase at p=1/3 requires a threshold size more precisely, the minimum size system where, the ordering phase effect begins, to appear here is R=5 . PACS:66.30.D;64.60;61.16.Ch;68.37Ef can be studied beyond the simple picture of I- INTRODUCTION diffusion as a random walk in periodic potential, by